Quotes about Madness

He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

It matters not what growth has been made in grace, how well experienced we may be in the spiritual life, or how eminent the position we have occupied in the Lord's service—when He withdraws His sustaining hand the madness which is in our hearts by nature at once asserts itself, gains the upper hand, and leads us into a course of folly.

I don't know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It's mad, and it just wants to destroy.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The most obstinate beliefs that mortals entertain about themselves are such as they have no evidence for beyond a constant, spontaneous pulsing of their self-satisfaction—as it were a hidden seed of madness, a confidence that they can move the world without precise notion of standing-place or lever.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.