#madness

If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too. ↗

— Jerry Pinto

#madness #death

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#following #madness #may #me #morning

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. ↗

— Bono

#i #i think #knew #madness #marriage

We derive our vitality from our store of madness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#madness #our #store #vitality

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#before #beginning #i #madness #only

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness. ↗

— Nita Lowey

#america #children #death #gun #here

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#beauty #cities #gallant #grim #mad

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#courage #door #into #keep #leads

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#another #form #mad #madness #men

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. ↗

— Anne Rice

#before #began #book #curiosity #farm