Daily Inspiration Quote by Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich’s line lands like a cigarette flicked into polite company: casual, lethal, and perfectly timed. “If there is” sets a trapdoor under certainty, refusing the comfort of either faith or clean atheism. Then she swerves into the word “crazy,” not “cruel” or “absent.” Crazy suggests inconsistency, mood swings, a cosmos run on impulse rather than plan. It’s a blasphemy that also feels oddly intimate, as if the divine were less a distant judge than an erratic man in the next room.

Coming from Dietrich, the intent reads less like a philosopher’s theorem and more like a survivor’s assessment. She lived through two world wars, the rise of fascism, and the spectacle of mass suffering presented as ideology. In that century’s light, calling God “crazy” isn’t just shock value; it’s a way to keep moral outrage intact without pretending history can be made tidy by providence. “Crazy” preserves the sense that what happened shouldn’t be rationalized, even by theology.

The subtext is also Dietrich’s signature defiance. She cultivated a public persona built on controlled transgression: gender-bending style, sexual independence, political refusal (she rejected the Nazis and performed for Allied troops). The quote echoes that posture: it doesn’t beg for meaning; it indicts the idea that meaning, if it exists, is sane. It’s skepticism with a performer’s bite - not a lecture, a line that leaves the audience laughing because the alternative is worse.