Paulo Coelho Quotes About Insanity

• This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Ideas, Insanity

• I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Strong, Thinking, Mad

• Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insanity, Behavior, Behave

  "Paulo Coelho speaks to THT". The Himalayan Times Interview, thehimalayantimes.com. April 26, 2009.

• Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Insanity, Insane

• Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Insanity, Beholder

• Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insanity, World, Used

• Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insanity, World, Today

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 17, 2011

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