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Quotes About Madness

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.
~ A.S. Byatt, Possession
Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Don't want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
Sometimes, the only things in this world that make sense are the moon, my madness and your hands messing up my hair, while your teeth sink into my soul.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
Love is a kind of insanity.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
You don't marry a woman because you love her, you do because you're MAD for her.
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
You are a full of beautiful madness, an unreasonable reason, but you make sense in all things senseless.
~ S.W. Collins
But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.
~ J. Limbu
When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
Locke's definition of a madman: someone "reasoning correctly from erroneous premises.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,--though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other. [...] Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Don Quixote - the famous literary madman - fought windmills. People think he saw giants when he looked at them, but those of us who've been there know the truth. He saw windmills, just like everyone else - but he believed they were giants. The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
~ Neal Shusterman
No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»
~ Charles Baudelaire
Today I felt pass over me / A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
~ Charles Baudelaire
drunk on my own madness, I cried furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
~ Charles Baudelaire
And intoxicated by madness I screamed furiously: "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!" Though such capricious endeavors are not without peril, and one must often pay dearly for them, what does an eternity of damnation compare with an infinity of pleasure in a single second?
~ Charles Baudelaire
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~ Charles Baudelaire
Todas esas fantasmagorías son casi tan bellas como los ojos de mi hermosa amada, la locuela monstruosa de ojos verdes.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Garde tes songes, les sages n'en ont pas d'aussi beaux que les fous
~ Charles Baudelaire
We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
~ Charles Bukowski
Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.
~ Charles Bukowski