Quotes About Madness

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.