998 Quotes About Madness

  • Author Hilda Hilst
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    How should I kill in me the various forms of madness and be at the same time tender and lucid, creative and patient, and survive?

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  • Author Tessa Hadley
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    Perhaps these earthbound types were more susceptible to the freaks and fumes of delusion, having no resistance when once they stumbled in.

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  • Author Shirley Jackson
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    Hill House went dancing,' Theodora said, 'taking us along a mad midnight fling. At least I think it was dancing; it might have been turning somersaults.

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  • Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    But the brilliance, the versatility of madness is akin to the resourcefulness of water seeping through, over, and around a dike.

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