Madness Quotes

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness - as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne - and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

Mr McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years, Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted.

The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

I hope we're a nice old couple living off the coast of Ireland or something like that-looking at our scrapbook of madness.

The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

How does one get ideas? By sheer perseverance to the point of madness.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.