Madness Quotes

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.

I don’t know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It’s mad, and it just wants to destroy.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?