#madness

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

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#groups #individuals #madness #nations #parties

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. ↗

— Yann Martel

#living-things #madness #life

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#believers #both #dark #different #different religions

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

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#everyone #human #madness #praise #virtue

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#always #because #life #living #love

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. ↗

— Petrarch

#learning #led #madness #others #some

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#madness #science #sublimity #taught #us