Quotes about Madness
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
— Euripides
The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
— John Lennon
Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.
— Pope Francis
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
— Aristotle
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
— Cicero
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
— William Hazlitt
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
— Euripides
Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
— William Faulkner
Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?
— Charles Finney