Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Let people doubt your sanity. Let them think you’re nuts. Be the mad scientist, the wise fool, the adventure addict who makes others question…

— Amy McTear

“In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters…

— Robert Goddard

“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

“or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

— Nikola Tesla

“mad, were not my perception and reasonings so clear; and this state of mind appears to have brought with it superior knowledge on all…

— Novalis

“As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.”

— Miles Keaton Andrew

“it was the moment in which a sane man who is talking to a lunatic has not yet perceived that his companion is mad.”

— Marcel Proust

“the characteristics the modern mind prides itself on are precisely those of madness.”

— Ernest Becker

“In a world muddled with madness, I made a conscious effort to stay sane.”

— Angela Colleen Prendergast

“It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane…

— William Faulkner

“Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity…

— Saul Bellow