Quotes on Insanity And Sanity

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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

There is always some madness in love.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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

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

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

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

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

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

Too much sanity may be madness!

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.

'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.'

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

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

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.