Quotes about Madness
The war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boy on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country .
— Joseph Heller
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
— Joseph Heller
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
— Epicurus
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
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