Favorite Quotations
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Insanity/Madness
Madness: A Brief History
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. ~ Abraham Maslow People who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. ~ George Carlin You ever talk to a logical lunatic before? They're much worse than a plain lunatic. ~ Tom Wolfe I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy. ~ Joseph Heller One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one. ~ Ann Landers You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter. ~ Robin Williams Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. ~ Nora Ephron Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. ~ Rita Mae Brown When dealing with the insane, it is best to pretend to be sane. ~ Hermann Hesse Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast or of one thing too exclusively. ~ François Voltaire Like madness is the glory of this life. ~ William Shakespeare 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. ~ Mark Twain Sanity is very rare. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no element of genius without some form of madness. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio Madness is no madness when shared. ~ Zygmunt Bauman
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." ~ Edgar Allen Poe