When he did think—when his brain began the slow chugging of rusty gears—the only thoughts that came were unspeakable things like, what’s the worst age a child can die? Worse yet was—after hours spent staring at the ceiling until it became a real-life Escher print with fans on the floor, useless windowsills, and dresser drawers that spilled underwear when opened—worse yet was when his mind found answers to those questions. Two-years-old isn’t so bad, he mused. They barely had a life. Twenty? At least they got to experience life! But fourteen... fourteen was the worst.
Jake Vander-ArkWorse than madness. Sanity.
William Goldingwanting what you could not have led to misery and madness
Cassandra ClareTags: madness misery cassandra-clare will-herondale tessa-gray infernal-devices clockwork-prince
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.
Tags: madness bipolar-life
In his madness he became a terrifying actor!
Luigi PirandelloYou don’t appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.
Luigi PirandelloI push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth's spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness.
Mohsin HamidTags: madness night uncertainty gravity nothingness unreal
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly
off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.
Tags: energy despair madness joy sickness sparks nervous incoherence attracted bewildered
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.
Anton ChekhovTags: dreams madness free-thought free-spirit
To begin cooking duck at one in the morning is one of the finest acts of madness that can be undertaken by a human being who is not mad.
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