I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.
Have I gone mad?" "I'm afraid so. You're terrible BONKERS. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
To live in darkness is to surrender to madness, to hide behind light is to ignore the blight, walk the road between and your worries will go unseen.
I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in your answer was rounded incorrectly; who tucked in his periodic table T-shirt, corrected every student who said "weight" when he or she ...
The Emperor, you see, protects... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum. He understands the dangers. The inconsistencies. He uses you, and all the instruments like you, to prot...
The days that followed passed slowly. I lay in my hotel room and watched the kind of strange European TV that would probably make perfect sense if I understood the language, but because I didn’t, the programs just seemed dreamlike and baffling. In ...
Love is a devoted madness while marriage is a responsibility. But then it is possible to be devotedly mad and responsible at the same time, yes it is. And so this is how we should begin to see marriage: as it is, for what it is! Marriage needs to cea...
Messenger: Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king. King Leonidas: [to himself: thinking] "Earth and water"? [Leonidas unsheathes and points his sword at the Messenger's throat] Messenger: Madman! You're a madman! Ki...
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.
Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.
He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.
Are you a maid, Penny?” She blushed. “Yes. Of course. Who would have –” “Stay that way. Love is madness, and lust is poison.
I rolled my eyes. To Jack I said, "Don't mind him, he's just mad no one likes him." Jonas clenched his jaw.
That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure". "Great," I muttered. "And all this time I thought I was frigid.
