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• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

  R. D. Laing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strategy, Situation, Madness

• There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Madness, Insanity

• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!

  J. G. Ballard

  Topics in Funny, Humor

  Tags in Comedian, Sane, Freedom, Insanity, Madness

• It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Insanity, Madness, Reality

• 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.

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Reason, Madness

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

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Madness, Romance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Madness, Necessary, Times
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  Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by logic.

  Andre Gide

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Inspired, Madness

• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  Basil Bunting

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Madness

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

  Francesco Petrarca

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Madness

• I’ll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I’ll never stop my music.

  George Harrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Touring, Madness, Music

• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Madness

• It’s a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

  Sean Connery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Madness

• All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

  Christopher Morley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Madness

• I’m not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Madness

• You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Madness

• I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today’s existence.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perfect, Madness

• If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

  William Congreve

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Madness

• So long as man is protected by madness – he functions – and flourishes.

  Emil Cioran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Madness

• We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

  Emil Cioran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vitality, Madness