And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it…

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run…

— Mark Twain

History is the same thing over and over again.

— Woody Allen

There is always some madness in love.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as…

— Emily Dickinson

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

— William Ellery Channing

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak…

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— R. D. Laing

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

— Miguel de Cervantes

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

— Nora Ephron

You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your…

— Frederick The Great

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

— Francis Ford Coppola

It's the maddest thing, watching old shows, like getting your family album out and flicking through.

— Dave Myers