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“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

Book:Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville was a renowned 19th-century American novelist known for his profound psychological descriptions and unique literary style. His masterpiece, 'Moby-Dick', is considered a classic of American literature. more

“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.”

Madness Bipolar Life

Book:Em and the Big Hoom

Source: Em and the Big Hoom

“Killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.”

Madness Killing

Book:A Brief History of Seven Killings

Source: A Brief History of Seven Killings

“This is what I am talking about: the bewitching power of moonlight. Moonlight incites dark passions like a cold flame, making hearts burning with the intensity of phosphorus.”

Moon Madness Moonlight Dark Passions

Author:Rampo Edogawa

“The mind builds walls. The heart, when allowed, builds windows.”

Love Wisdom Healing Compassion Kindness Awareness Perspective Empathy Emotional Intelligence Mindfulness Practice

Author:Ajmal, from "The Border of a Mind"

“Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”

Madness Wits Misattributed To Alexander Pope Partitions

Book:Absalom and Achitophel

Source: Absalom and Achitophel

“And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?”

Madness Intelligence

Book:The Tell-Tale Heart

Source: The Tell-Tale Heart

“Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.”

Growing Up Adults Madness Mad Adulthood

Book:The Near Witch

Source: The Near Witch

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself. What's more I'd be crazy not to go crazy. We don't know what an illness is. On awful hurts we plaster little old words, as if we could think hell with a paper bandage.”

Pain Madness

Book:Hyperdream

Source: Hyperdream

“It was heart-shaking. Glorious. Torches, dizziness, singing. Wolves howling around us and a bull bellowing in the dark. The river ran white. It was like a film in fast motion, the moon waxing and waning, clouds rushing across the sky. Vines grew from the ground so fast they twined up the trees like snakes; seasons passing in the wink of an eye, entire years for all I know. . . . Mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time is something which defies spring and water, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible. Duality ceases to exist; there is no ego, no 'I,' and yet it's not at all like those horrid comparisons one sometimes hears in Eastern religions, the self being a drop of water swallowed by the ocean of the universe. It's more as if the universe expands to fill the boundaries of the self. You have no idea how pallid the workday boundaries of ordinary existence seem, after such an ecstasy.”

Madness Ecstasy Duality The Secret History Henry Winter Bacchanal

Author:Donna Tartt

“…madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…”

Madness Hysteria

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

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