Body Quote by Augustus William Hare

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

— Anne Sexton

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

— Stephen King

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be…

— Saul Bellow

It takes madness to find out madness.

— Lady Gregory

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent…

— Paulo Coelho

But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?

— Anonymous

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the…

— Molly Haskell

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not…

— Anonymous

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

— R. D. Laing

“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel