INSANITY

Quote: No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Quote: 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. Author: Antonin Artaud 1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist

Quote: We are all born mad. Some remain so. Author: Samuel Beckett 1906-1989, Irish Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor

Quote: Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. Author: William Cowper 1731-1800, British Poet

Quote: Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. Author: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

Quote: Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. Author: Nathaniel Emmons

Quote: I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. Author: Desiderius Erasmus c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist

Quote: 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. Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis

Quote: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. Author: Allen Ginsberg 1926-, American Poet

Quote: Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. Author: Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer

Quote: Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

Quote: You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went. Author: Dennis Hopper 1936-, American Actor, Director

Quote: I teach that all men are mad. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. Author: Waylon Jennings

Quote: Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Author: Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

Quote: There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Author: Oscar Levant 1906-1972, American Pianist, Actor

Quote: Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. Author: Samuel Levenson

Quote: I'm a nut, but not just a nut. Author: Bill Murray 1950-, American Comedian, Actor, Writer

Quote: Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher

Quote: 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. Author: Peggy Noonan 1950-, American Author, Presidential Speechwriter

Quote: I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

Quote: For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

Quote: Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. Author: Proverb

Quote: Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

Quote: All of us are crazy in one way or another. Author: Yiddish Proverb Sayings of Yiddish Origin

Quote: What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance? Author: Theodore Roethke 1908-1963, American Poet

Quote: Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet] Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's ''Loyal Opposition,'' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity. Author: William Allen White 1868-1944, American Editor, Writer

Quote: 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. Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher