Quotes about Madness

However much the devil and wicked men may rage, however much they boil with their own unrestrained anger, there is no doubt that God checks and curbs their madness with a hidden bridle.

How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?

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

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

This is the reason of an appearance very frequent in madmen; that they remain whole days and nights, sometimes whole years, in the constant repetition of some remark, some complaint, or song; which having struck powerfully on their disordered imagination, in the beginning of their frenzy, every repetition reinforces it with new strength, and the hurry of their spirits, unrestrained by the curb of reason, continues it to the end of their lives.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

Love is a sort of insanity.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.