Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
—John Russell
I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.
—Joseph Heller
I don't really trust a sane person.
—Lyle Alzado
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
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
—Robin Williams
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
—Salvador Dali
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
—Sy Rosen and Christian Williams
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
—Ted Morgan
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?
—William Shakespeare
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.
—William Shakespeare
Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.
—William Shakespeare
How comes it, that thou art then estranged from thyself?
—William Shakespeare
Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.
—William Shakespeare