#madness

The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#sanity #madness

So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will be ecstatic.” “They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem #jessamine #tessa #will #madness

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#madness #madness

Sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#madness

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#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

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

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. ↗

— Roman Payne

#artists #awkwardness #bizarre #clumsiness #good-art

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too. ↗

— William Saroyan

#madness #art

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. ↗

— Andre Gide

#inspired #madness #only #reason #things