Madness And Sanity Quotes

Madness And Sanity Quotes by William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Mark Twain, John Dryden, Mackenzie Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe and many others.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is souther

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
William Shakespeare
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
Miguel de Cervantes
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
Mark Twain
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
John Dryden
There’s a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
Mackenzie Phillips
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
History is the same thing over and over again.
Woody Allen
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson
And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Peter O’Toole
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
Akira Kurosawa
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Jung
The human mind is kind of like a piГ±ata. When it breaks open, there’s a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piГ±ata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.
Jane Wagner
There is always some madness in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Nathanael Emmons
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness …Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes
Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
Charles Baudelaire