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“Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.”

Loneliness Madness Crowds

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.”

Stories Left Imagination Loneliness Madness Bounds Scary Engaged Listeners Really Scary

Author:Larry Fessenden

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

Spiritual Found Loneliness Understood Madness Safety

Book:The Madman

Source: The Madman

“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”

Art Wisdom Dream Sleep Loneliness Unique Labor Madness Fellows Hunger Endless Absorption

Author:Jack Kerouac

“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”

Long Desire Loneliness Particular Lovers Eating Madness Passionate Abstraction Passionate Love Desire Love

Book:The Return of the Native

Source: The Return of the Native

“He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.”

People World Long Reason Reality Left Situation Loneliness Cry Possibility Tears Madness Safety Rage Cried Concealed

Author:Stephen King

“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”

“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”

Kind Ends Reality Pain Loneliness Particular Involved Madness Terror Elation

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness