Quotes about madness

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, “no epoch was more naturally mad.”

Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.

You see the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.

In an individual one would regard it as evidence of insanity to see someone repeatedly undertaking enterprises that resulted in his losing precisely what he claimed he was trying to achieve; it is not less lunatic to do it on the international scale, but if you’ve been catching the news lately you’ll have noticed it’s being done more than ever.

—Among the other things lunatics make: their own version of truth.

If I think you’re my problem, I’m insane.

Thing about crazies is, they’re crazy. You can’t even understand them in retrospect.

Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

The collective manifestations of the insanity that lies at the heart of the human condition constitute the greater part of human history. It is to a large extent a history of madness.