Quotes about Insanity

“I teach that all men are mad.”

“I'm a nut, but not just a nut.”

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

“Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.”

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”

“All of us are crazy in one way or another.”

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

“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”

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

“Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.”

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]”

“What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?”

“There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.”

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

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

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

“For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.”

“Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.”

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

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

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

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

“Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.”

“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”

“If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.”

“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.”

“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”

“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”