Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
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Madness And Insanity Quotes
“There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.”
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”
“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.”
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
“Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings
“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.”
“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.”
“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”
“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
“I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
Source: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
“There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives”
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.”
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.”
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
Source: Vintage PKD