Quotes about Madness
Madness, you say? Exactly! A sober church never does any good. At this hour we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost.
— Leonard Ravenhill
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
— Lewis Carroll
I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.
— Lewis Carroll
have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
— Lewis Carroll
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
— Nadine Gordimer
The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.
— Thomas Merton
First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt" to "wander
— Thomas Merton
If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed 'the madness of great love.' My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.
— Kathleen Norris
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
— CS Lewis
My maternal aunts and uncles, the Barros, were twelve rather eccentric brothers and sisters, though none was hopelessly mad.
— Isabel Allende
Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
— Mark Twain
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness.
— Anonymous