The lunatic is in the grass…. Pink Floyd

INSANITY/LUNACY

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

~Soren Kierkegaard

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

~Alexander Pope

The difference between genius and insanity is measured only by success.

~Bruce Feirstein

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

~Bill Murray

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

~Jean Dubuffet

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

~Desiderius Erasmus

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

~T.S. Eliot

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

~Albert Einstein

Perhaps a lunatic is simply a minority of one.

~Oscar Wilde

I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

~Hunter S. Thompson

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

~ R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?

~Theodore Roethke

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliché, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there and the sick are in here. For example, you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

~ Tom Stoppard

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts.

~ G B Burgin
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
~ Robin Williams

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

~ Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

~Nathaniel Emmons

Sanity is madness put to good uses.

~ George Santayana

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

~ William Ellery Channing

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

~John Lennon

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

~ Angela Monet