Madness And Insanity Quotes - Page 2

• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mean, Design, Insanity

  Maxims

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Intelligent, Men, Mad

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.494, Wordsworth Editions

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Insanity, Mind

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.42, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Funny, Mean, Creativity

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• Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Insanity, Majority

  "Much madness is divinest sense" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

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• The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Success, Differences, Insanity

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

  R. D. Laing

  Insane World, Break Through, Insanity

  'The Politics of Experience' (1967) ch. 6

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• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

  Isaac Newton

  Funny, People, Insanity

  "Proust Was a Neuroscientist". Book by Isaac Newton, p. 27, February 3, 2011.

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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Depression, Thinking, Bipolar

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• Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

  Nora Ephron

  Depression, Crazy, Insane Person

  "What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present", (p. 320), 1989.

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• Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Funny, Insanity, Reason

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• A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Insanity, Insane

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• I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

  Bill Mauldin

  Funny, Motivation, Science

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• 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?"

  Sophie Swetchine

  Confused, Voice, Insanity

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• 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

  Funny, Running, People

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5637, Delphi Classics

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• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kings, Spring, Insanity

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Insanity, Mind, Naked

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

  Diogenes

  Men, Mad, Insanity

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• Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Insanity

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• Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Mad, Intellectual

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)”, p.126, e-artnow

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• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Insanity, Intelligence

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• Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

  John Lennon

  Life, Depression, Running

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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