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  • The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.

    Real   Mad   Darkness  
    Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.15, Macmillan
  • In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

    Real   Mad   Way  
    Source: ctheory.net
  • The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

    Play   People   Mad  
    Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.79, Hamilton Books
  • For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

    Song   Book   Play  
    "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.
  • Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

    Children   Years   Ideas  
  • I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

    I Like You   Mad   Sane  
  • Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience - who knows when such a malady may strike?

    Artist   Mad   People  
    "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.
  • A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

  • You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

    Taken   Thinking   Men  
    "About Love and Other Stories". Book by Anton Chekhov (p. 4), June 10, 2004.
  • Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

    Buddhism   Mad   Mind  
  • I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

    Careers   Phones   Giving  
  • The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

    Beautiful   Animal   Mad  
    Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.88, Vintage
  • I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

    Crazy   Mad   Mad Person  
    "Michelle Williams Laughs, Cries and Talks". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. January 12, 2011.
  • The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.

    Mad   Sanity   Persons  
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