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“Love that is not madness is not love.”
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.”
Aristotle
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”
“The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.”
William Styron
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.”
Doctor Who
“Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.”
Irving Layton
“Sanity is a madness put to good use.”
George Santayana
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Get mad, then get over it.”
Colin Powell