“Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.”

“Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

“The mind is always asking you to do something over again, something you have already done so many times before. And every time you see that by doing it nothing is achieved. What else can madness be?”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“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 The Mortal Instruments

“Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

“Already madness lifts its wing
to cover half my soul.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

“What madness has seized you?”
Quae te dementia cepit!

Virgil book Eclogues

“Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

“Dare to call it madness only if you felt part of it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“To be mad is to keep repeating something that has already been seen as useless, as worthless.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …