Sanity Quotes

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body.

How comes it, that thou art then estranged from thyself?

That way madness lies.

Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?

Matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!

Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow...
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?

Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.

Why, this is very midsummer madness.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

The difference between insanity and genius is success.

I don't really trust a sane person.

I don't really trust a sane person.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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