Madness And Sanity Quotes:

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5637, Delphi Classics

topic: Funny, Running, People, Insanity And Sanity, Building Materials

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Cat, Mad, People, Humpty Dumpty, Deep Life

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: "Fictional character: Cervantes". "Man of La Mancha" by Dale Wasserman, 1965.

topic: Lying, Madness, Lunatic, Madness And Sanity

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Sarcastic, Mad, Intellectual, Insanity And Sanity, Curmudgeon

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 --

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Eye, Majority, Madness, Insanity And Sanity, Emily

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.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Mad, Insanity, Analysis, This Crazy World, Madness And Sanity

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Clever, Insane World, Insanity And Genius

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

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Kings, Spring, Insanity, March Poems, Spring Is Here

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

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Insanity, Suffering, Minutes, Funny Bumper Sticker, Funny One Liner

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

- Aristotle

topic: Philosophical, Insanity, Soul, Insanity And Sanity, Exemption

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

- Peter O'Toole

topic: Dream, Hope, Vision, Insanity And Sanity, Lost Hope

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Inspirational, Life, Hope, Insanity And Sanity, Madness And Sanity

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.

- Jane Wagner

topic: Love, Perspective, Mind, Losing Your Mind, Peak Experiences

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

- Henrik Tikkanen

topic: Crazy, Madness, Significant, Insanity And Sanity, Madness And Insanity

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.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Depression, Spring, Science, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Crazy, Wind, Mad, Insanity And Sanity, Denmark In Hamlet

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Funny, Life, Depression, Insanity And Sanity, Metaphors Of Life

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

- Mackenzie Phillips

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Insanity, Genius, Lines, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

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

- R. D. Laing

topic: Needs, May, Madness, Insane World, Insanity And Sanity

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

- R. D. Laing

topic: Depression, Insanity, Bipolar, Insane World, Insanity And Sanity

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

- John Dryden

source: 'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 150

topic: Literature, Madness, Wit, Genius And Madness, Partition

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

- Nathanael Emmons

topic: Insanity, Reason, Wit, Insanity And Sanity, Madness And Insanity

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

source: Maxims

topic: Mean, Design, Insanity, Insanity And Sanity, Madness And Insanity

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.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Crazy, Odds, Mad, Insanity And Sanity, Madness And Sanity

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

- Akira Kurosawa

source: "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

topic: Depression, Crazy, Insane World, Insanity And Sanity, Mad World

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

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Anon, Insanity And Genius

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

- Oscar Levant

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Depression, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

topic: Halloween, Math, Insanity, Horatio, Insanity And Sanity

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

- Jean Dubuffet

topic: Creativity, Mean, Imagination, Definition Of Insanity, Madness And Insanity

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

- Bruce Feirstein

source: "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. 1997.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

History is the same thing over and over again.

- Woody Allen

topic: History, Anon, Insanity And Sanity, Special Talents, Mojo

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Life, Philosophical, Insanity And Sanity, Perfect Love

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

- Carl Jung

topic: Funny, Depression, Witty, Insane World, Insanity And Sanity

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

- Masashi Kishimoto

topic: Differences, Insanity, Genius, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Love, Insanity, Mind, Weak Minds, Definition Of Insanity

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4

topic: Depression, Crazy, Party, Insanity And Genius, Insanity And Sanity

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

- Paul Valery

topic: Being Yourself, Being Single, Men, Sound Mind, Insanity And Sanity

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

- Robin Williams

source: "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Depression, Insanity And Sanity, Sparking

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

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Wind, Wings, Insanity, Madness And Insanity, Madness And Sanity

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

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Mad, Insanity And Sanity, Worldly Wisdom

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: War, Men, Insanity, Insanity And Sanity, Enthusiasm Passion

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

- Isaac Newton

source: "Proust Was a Neuroscientist". Book by Isaac Newton, p. 27, February 3, 2011.

topic: Funny, People, Insanity, Bodies In Motion, Laws Of Motion

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.

- Rita Mae Brown

source: Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

topic: Funny, Friendship, Depressing, Insanity And Sanity, Mentally Ill

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

- John Dryden

topic: Depression, Mad, Mental Illness, Insanity And Sanity, Being Mad

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Men, Madness, Sanity, Madness And Sanity