There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a half hour after that was the ten-minute break. Lane Dean imagined himself running around on the break...
(a.) The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
(a.) Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
But these people _announced_ their madness . . . they flaunted their insanity, they weren't half mad and half not, curled around a door frame. They were properly mad in the Shakespearean sense, talkin...
We can go mad whenever we like. We can leave our minds behind and play in the garden at night. The gate is always open. And the moon is always bright.
One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.
A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart.
Is there any courage, without craziness?
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing...
Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, an...
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. I will go mad! he annouced.
The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!
Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.
Crushes are more beautiful than affairs because there is no responsibility, no worry, no commitment. Just look at your crush and smile like an idiot.
Were all mad here
There nearly always is a method in madness.
One of the most distinctive features of psychosis is its dynamic of externalization. Madness is experienced as being enacted on the subject from without; a person perceives his own unintegrated psycho...
If there is no kindness with your rightness, then that is madness.