“Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former altars all together, hear about the works of peace, and hold a great celebration of peace with fervent tears before the smoking altars.” MadeTogetherNationsBloodTearsApproachEuropeMadnessCirclesFormerGentleStreamsSmokingCelebrationAltarsCelestialFervent Author:Novalis
“[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.” SoulEndsDesirePassionWinningChanceFireBloodPositionCostSickIncreaseMadnessFortuneSettingSettingsTiesGamblingStakesFamily Ties Author:Matilde Serao
“I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.” MindHeartI CanSidesOpinionBloodWindBearsMy HeartHealthyMadnessMadCaughtFleshRanFlesh And Blood Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.” WorldHandsSinWhiteBloodStudentsLoversMadnessTerrorWanderJulietLearDuncanDesdemona Book:Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde Source: Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde
“If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.” IfsMadeSoundChurchBloodMadnessSlaveryRaisedRingsExcellentTortureSugarBellsOrgansAdulteryHideousHomicideChurch Bells Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.” GivingWarLawWinningBloodHonorIllusionMadnessChaosHungerLawyerSpit Author:Libba Bray