“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.”
Source: The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension
“When ambition becomes obsession, there’s no line left between genius and madness.”
Source: Harland’s Plan: Obsessive ambition: Where genius meets madness: Psychological Thriller
“I told my therapist I’m fine — she started crying.” — Thomas Miller (dark humor, irony, madness)”
“The past never really returns… it just finds a way to sit across from you.”
Source: Harland’s Plan: Obsessive ambition: Where genius meets madness: Psychological Thriller
“Intuition sees the path; analysis clears it.”
Source: The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
“Nobody can understand Christianity who does not grasp how the crucifixion and resurrection carry out a seemingly impossible synthesis of justice and mercy, that is, unless they understand how the cross presents a solution to a seeming tension intrinsic to the being of God.”
Source: Madness: A Philosophical Exploration
“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first. We see one nation suddenly seized, from its highest to its lowest members, with a fierce desire of military glory; another as suddenly becoming crazed upon a religious scruple, and neither of them recovering its senses until it has shed rivers of blood and sowed a harvest of groans and tears, to be reaped by its posterity.”
“When grief becomes madness, reality becomes a choice.”
Source: The Widow: A Psychological Thriller
“If you think the stars twinkle in the darkness of the night to illuminate your path, that's a romantic and poetic thought; but if you truly believe the stars twinkle to illuminate your path, that's megalomania or madness!”
“I say, you are mad."
"Am I?" Dany shrugged, and said, "Dracarys.”
Source: A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) , George R. R