Quotes about Madness

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

It would be superfluous to drive us mad, my dear Watson, said he. A candid observer would certainly declare that we were so already before we embarked upon so wild an experiment.

I think Mr. Holmes had not quite got over his illness yet. He's been behaving very queerly, and he is very much excited." "I don't think you need alarm yourself," said I. "I have usually found that there was method in his madness." "Some folks might say there was madness in his method," muttered the Inspector.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

It was insanity, but it sounded romantic.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often forget—or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

Don Quixote was for Bonhoeffer an important picture of the human condition.

What madness is the course I am pursuing. I believe all the great truths of the Christian religion, but I am not acting as though I did. Should I die in this state I must go into a place of misery.