#insanity

"If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them."

"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too."

"Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

"You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity."

"The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence."

"Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort."

"This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death."

"Losing your mind is preferable to losing your woman, because if you lose your woman you will also lose your mind, and then you’re left with nothing."

"She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity."

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."

"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy."

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"I should never be left alone with my mind for too long."

"Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business."

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."