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| Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?" ~ Madame Swetchine |
| A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~ Paul Valéry, |
| Sanity is madness put to good uses. ~ George Santayana, |
| I don’t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. ~ Author Unknown |
| Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ~ Author Unknown |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. ~ R.D. Laing, |
| You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. ~ Robin Williams |
| I have my own little world, but it’s okay – they know me here. ~ Author Unknown |
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| No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it’s the rule. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, |
| A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. ~ William Ellery Channing |
| I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ~ William H. Mauldin |
| You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. ~ Matt Groening, |
There is a pleasure sure
In being mad which none but madmen know.
~ John Dryden, |
| 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 |
| No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ~ Aristotle |
| There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~ Edwin Denby |
| Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
~ Emily Dickinson |
| Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~ Marcel Proust |
Today I felt pass over me
A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
~ Charles Baudelaire |
| Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad. ~ Diogenes |
| When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~ Mark Twain |
| There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of the Mind," |
| I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. ~ G.B. Burgin |