Blanchot Madness Quotes & Sayings

Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp. — Amanda Quick

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. — Blanche Lincoln

When Kafka allows a friend to understand that he writes because otherwise he would go mad, he knows that writing is madness already, his madness, a kind of vigilence, unrelated to any wakefulness save sleep's: insomnia. Madness against madness, then. But he believes that he masters the one by abandoning himself to it; the other frightens him, and is his fear; it tears through him, wounds and exalts him. It is as if he had to undergo all the force of an uninterruptable continuity, a tension at the edge of the insupportable which he speaks of with fear and not without a feeling of glory. For glory is the disaster. — Maurice Blanchot

Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm one-half Cherokee, one-half Irish, one-half Turkish, one-half Australian and one-half Korean." "Excuse me, but that's five halves," said Maggie. — Cuthbert Soup

I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans. — James Maslow

Every man is a chauvinist, however much he wishes to be otherwise. — Robyn Donald

I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness. — Maurice Blanchot