Browsing Topic Best Madness And Sanity Quotes

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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

There is always some madness in love.

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

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

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

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

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

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

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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.

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

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

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

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

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 —

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

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

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

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

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

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

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.

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.

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.

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

Too much sanity may be madness!

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.