#madness

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great #great genius #madness #some #touch

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ↗

— Seneca

#existed #genius #great #great genius #madness

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. ↗

— Seneca

#madness #nothing #voluntary

An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria. ("The Chymist") ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#hysteria #madness #obsolete #dreams

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#insanity #madness #sever #the-chemical-garden-trilogy #vaughn

It's a myth that crazy people don't know they're crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people. ↗

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

#madness #introspection

She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hell, and she knew that there would never be anything that could quench those fires except death. Vanessa knew that Jango had become his own Grim Reaper. ↗

— Cedric Nye

#death #grim-reaper #hell #horror #madness

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#always #bit #gone #madness #periods

Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#could #done #even #ever #every

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? ↗

— Basil Bunting

#consent #madness #make #make up #moment