Sanity Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,
William Shakespeare
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| No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. |
| - Aristotle |
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| I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I have my own little world, but it's okay - they know me here. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. |
| - Rita Mae Brown |
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| There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. |
| - Salvador Dali |
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| Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. |
| - Diogenes |
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| Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. |
| - Heinrich Heine |
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| Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. |
| - R.D. Laing |
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| There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. |
| - Oscar Levant |
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| There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. |
| - Marcel Proust |
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| Sanity is madness put to good uses. |
| - George Santayana |
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| There is no great genius without some touch of madness. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. |
| - Henrik Tikkanen |
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| When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. |
| - Kenneth Tynan |
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| A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. |
| - Paul Valéry |
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| See, the human mind is kind of like... a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience. |
| - Jane Wagner |
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| You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. |
| - Robin Williams |
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