Madness Quotes

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.