„But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness“
— Cassandra Clare
„I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.“
— Charles Bukowski
„There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„Dearest,I want to tell you that you have given me complete happiness. No one could have done more than you have done. Please believe that.But I know that I shall never get over this: and I am wasting your life. It is this madness. Nothing anyone says can persuade me. You can work, and you will be much better without me. You see I can't write this even, which shows I am right. All I want to say is that until this disease came on we were perfectly happy. It was all due to you. No one could have been so good as you have been, from the very first day till now. Everyone knows that.V.“
— Virginia Woolf
„If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.“
— Cassandra Clare
„We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess--across the night…“
— Jack Kerouac
„Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises…“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.""How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.“
— Lewis Carroll
„Do you understand? Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.“
— Sadhguru