Quotes about Madness

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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

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