“When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.”

— Paulo Coelho , book The Valkyries

Source: The Valkyries

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish." by Paulo Coelho?

Paulo Coelho 844

Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

Related quotes

“The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.”

Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics

Book IX, 1168b.1
Variants: My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Nicomachean Ethics

“Every person wants to be valued.
Every person wants to be respected.
Every person wants to be appreciated.
Every person wants to be understood.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Source: John C. Maxwell official FB page https://www.facebook.com/JohnCMaxwell/posts/464718381691671

“There is only one kind of person, Phædrus said, who accepts or rejects the mythos in which he lives. And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phædrus said, is "insane."”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

To go outside the mythos is to become insane.
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 28

“When a person loves another very much, she greatly wished to meet that person. Why then should I be afraid of death? Death brings us to God.”

Josephine Bakhita (1868–1947) Italian saint and former slave

Quoted in "Goodness and missionary zeal", The Holy See https://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_20010112_bakhita_en.html.

“I recall an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. The man said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings.
And so it has been to this day.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

“Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.”

Kevin Spacey (1959) American actor, director and producer

On the character "Prot", in the movie K-PAX; Premiere magazine (September 2001)

“Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. I have spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant; unsure of either, suspecting each. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”

Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor

Source: Quoted in "Cary Grant: A Biography" by Marc Eliot

“Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?”

William Powell (author) book The Anarchist Cookbook

Source: The Anarchist Cookbook (1971), Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 93.

“He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.”

Cornelia Funke book The Thief Lord

Source: The Thief Lord

“Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Paulo Coelho 844

Related quotes

Related topics