Madness And Insanity Quotes

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

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

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Too much sanity may be madness!

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

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

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

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

When love is not madness, it is not love.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

There is always some madness in love.

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

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.