Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

William Faulkner
Some Similar Quotes
  1. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. - Unknown

  3. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too. - William Shakespeare

  4. He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad! " he annouced. - Douglas Adams

  5. Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! - Dale Wasserman

More Quotes By William Faulkner
  1. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

  2. She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

  3. You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

  4. I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

  5. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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