Quotes on Madness And Sanity

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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.

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.

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.'

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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