#madness

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#surreal #dreams

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ↗

— John Updike

#few #few men #foolish #goodness #hence

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ↗

— John Dryden

#events #fortune #herself #madness #make

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. ↗

— John Dryden

#bounds #divide #great #madness #near

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

#dream #lot #madness #must #people

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dream #everybody #form #madness #youth

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#believes #get #hysteria #madness #other

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. ↗

— Graham Greene

#escape #fear #form #how #human

When love is not madness, it is not love. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#love is #madness

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#disproportion #great #madness #means #proof