#madness

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#human-nature #madness #mind #passion #soul

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. ↗

— André Breton

#madness #love

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#grief #life #love #madness #mortality

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ↗

— Henry Miller

#invigorating #madness #makes #more #ones

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#call #constancy #democracy #down #forces

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#everyone #human #madness #praise #virtue

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anything #books #closer #human #human life

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#covering #empty #farther #go #into