Insanity Quotes

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau

In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

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

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

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

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

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

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

Insanity is contagious.
Joseph Heller

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire; our ordinary life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our nature.
Henri Taine

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau







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