The madness of youth made me unafraid.
Lauren DeStefanoDuring the earliest attacks of Fear and intense unreality, I sometimes uttered these unconscious and shocking words: 'I should prefer to escape into madness to avoid this consuming fear.' Alas, I did not know what I was saying. In my ignorance I believed that madness was a state of insensibility where there was neither pain nor suffering nor joy, but particularly, no responsibility. Never, for one instant, has I even imagined what 'to lose one's reason' actually meant.
Marguerite SechehayeTags: madness responsibility
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: solitude ambition madness relationship jungian-alchemy the-others
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
Herman MelvilleTags: madness sanity allegory efficiency modernity ends means modern-age instrumental-rationality
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle (Attributed by Seneca in Moral Essays, "De Tranquillitate Animi" On Tranquility of Mind, sct. 17, subsct. 10.)
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Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.
Anna FunderGenius - the pursuit of madness.
Criss JamiTags: insanity madness genius artist pursuit chasing
They ask me what is madness and I reply it is a gift.
They ask me why, and I said:
The world trough the eyes of normal people is boring, but look at it trough the eyes of the mad, then you will know why I enjoy my madness so much!
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With every vial of success there is always a pinch of madness.
Gunther BearklawthTags: life madness alchemy etc-behavior vial
But at some point it becomes obvious that, ultimately, the adventure of faith is the most sensible thing to do, and in fact the only thing worth doing. As Sam says toward the end of The Two Towers, no one remembers the tales in which the characters give up and turn back. Great and heroic deeds remain undone if no one leaps into the dark to do them. That's true when it comes to faith, too. You can't play a meaningful role in the great story by playing it safe. Once you hit the road, there is no going back to life as it was before. When Jesus asks His disciples if they will leave him to, Peter says, "Lord to whom will we go?" (verse 68). It's either walk with Jesus, unsafe as it seems sometimes, or go home.
Sarah ArthurTags: adventure madness jesus heroes
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