“Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.” IndividualProcessBehindsAchieveGeniusNormalCreatingMadnessLeavingDeeperDevotionSparksSmarterGiftedObsessiveInsatiableParameters Author:Paul Russo
“There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.” MenPlayFactsSeemsTurnsDestinyShapesNormalMadnessVisibleMusclesPeculiarInsects Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann
“It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I liked watching her. The part, though, isn't filled in. When Baker announces that she's gotten too used to the madness of Afghanistan, that she's worried she's thinking of it as normal, the sentiment comes out of nowhere. The dramatic arc in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is nonexistent. The movie evaporates in the mind like water in the Afghan desert.” ThinkingMindDoeHardJobsFacesUsedActorsWaterNormalMadnessFilledScreensComicDesertWorriedDramaticSentimentsAfghanistanPullingGood JobWhiskeyArcsBakersTangoAfghanFeyFilled In Author:David Edelstein
“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.” PeopleDifferentMotivationalRunningAttentionRiskNormalMadnessMadBehaveBeing YourselfBeing DifferentCrazinessNormality Author:Paulo Coelho
“Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.” ReasonLostStrongForceBehindsAliveBloodEventsAdventureDependsNormalMadnessOneselfBreatheReasonableEnterpriseAbandonInvitesGesturesDragInitiativeVentureVeinsVitalityMadmenDoseRustLost Everything Author:Emile M. Cioran
“Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.” LifeShouldHumansPersonsInspirationHuman BeingsAliveNormalMadnessSacredFlamesBehaveFlowing River Author:Paulo Coelho
“Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.” LyingNaturalTruth IsNormalMadness Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine