It is better to be a little mad than commonplace. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: “Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?” – Madame Swetchine
Sanity is madness put to good uses. – George Santayana, Little Essays
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. – Author Unknown
There is always a madness in love. There is however also always a reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. – R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
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. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. – William Shakespeare
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. – Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. – William Ellery Channing
You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Marge Simpson
Look both ways before entering the insanity. – Terri Guillemets
If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. – Aristotle
Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insanity is the state of being unable, any longer, to be just a little bit delusional. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys ones equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. – Georges Bataille
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. – Henry Ward Beecher
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 are okay, then its you. – Rita Mae Brown
