#madman

I'm not a madman. ↗

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #madman #courage

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#madman #madness #safety #freedom

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#madman #married #love

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#did #eyes #front #having #know

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ↗

— Paul Valery

#keeps #key #lock #madman #man

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. ↗

— Paul Verlaine

#lost #madman #poet

Only the madman is absolutely sure. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#madman #only #sure

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. ↗