Insanity Quotes
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Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I teach that all men are mad. (Quote by - Horace)
Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevails Assent, and you are sane; Demur,--you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes of his understanding. (Quote by - James Baillie Fraser)
Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. (Quote by - Thomas Szas)
I teach that all are men are mad. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Some are born mad. Some remain so. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. (Quote by - John Dryden)
It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children (Quote by - Sam Levenson)
We cannot unthink unless we are insane. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. (Quote by - Proverb)
Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum. (Quote by - James L. Petigru)
Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of declamation. (Quote by - Decimus Junius Juvenal)
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. (Quote by - Bruce Feirstein)
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. (Quote by - Isaac Newton)
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. (Quote by - Seneca)
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Mothers are all slightly insane. (Quote by - J. D. Salinger)
Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire; our ordinary life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our nature. (Quote by - Henri Taine)
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
All of us are crazy in one way or another. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
It is a common calamity; at some one time we have all been mad. (Quote by - Baptista Mantuanus)
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! (Quote by - John Dryden)
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. (Quote by - Jean Debuffet)
O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks; He comes--I see his glaring eyes: Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes. Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe, Such screams to hear, such sights to see! My brain, my brain,--I know, I know I am not mad but soon shall be. (Quote by - Monk Lewis)
They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Everyone is more or less mad on one point. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad. (Quote by - Sophocles)
