Quotes about Madness
I'm demonaic, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!
— Herman Melville
My cheek blanches white while I write; I start at the scratch of my pen; my own mad brood of eagles devours me; fain would I unsay this audacity; but an iron-mailed hand clenches mine in a vice, and prints down every letter in my spite.
— Herman Melville
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
— Seneca
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
— Seneca
At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.
— John Lennon
When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known."
— Barbara Kingsolver
I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
— Euripides
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
— Mark Twain
We agreed to love each other madly.
— Jack Kerouac
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.
— Steven Pressfield