Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched—by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever.” (p.33)
Tim WillocksStichwörter: questions god journey madness apple smile horror colors prayer wind depression starlight eyes tree autumn bones angel mirror clock blossom sacraments asymmetry atlantic blind-man left-eye living-things nineteen-years-old power-of-sight
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
Piero ScaruffiStichwörter: madness creation innovation
Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!
Marie CorelliStichwörter: devil madness paris absinthe
This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.
René DaumalStichwörter: insanity philosophy madness surrealism
You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it.
Charles MansonStichwörter: madness
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?
Jon RonsonStichwörter: madness
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
Criss JamiStichwörter: intelligence art thinking insanity philosophy madness mind absurd thought theory artist absurdity experimentation intellectual ecstasy insane intellectualism experiment too-much outrageous out-of-my-mind
Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story. Boys and girls fall in love, that is, they are driven mad and go blind and deaf and see each other not as human animals with comic noses and bandy legs and voices like frogs, but as angels so full of shining goodness that like hollow turnips with candles put into them, they seem miracles of beauty. And the next minute the candles shoot out sparks and burn their eyes. And they seem to each other like devils, full of spite and cruelty. And they will drive each other mad unless they have grown some imagination. Even enough to laugh.
Joyce CaryStichwörter: imagination love boys girls laughter beauty madness angels cruelty spite devils gulley-jimson the-old-old-story
I am aware that humans believe they are the sole owners of this curse, but all creatures love, Dieter. Love is our one shared madness, our one shared burden. All creatures are driven against sense by it, and even the lowest ant will die madly for her queen.
B. Justin ShierStichwörter: love madness curse
And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies!
Lewis CarrollStichwörter: time madness habit
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