Madness And Sanity Quotes

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

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.

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

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

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

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

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

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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.