Character Quote by Graham Greene

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.

— Charlotte Bronte

His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time…

— Christer Kihlman

“A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...”

— Walter Mosley

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored…

— John Irving

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

— Heinrich Heine

Every great man was thought to be insane before he changed the world. Some never changed the world. They were just insane.

— Ritu Ghatourey

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

— Robert M. Pirsig

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that…

— D. H. Lawrence

The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself…

— Hal Clement

“He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude—all the qualities that…

— Machado de Assis

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with…

— Flannery O'Connor

“was not crazy.  He did not have a history of insanity in his family.  He had no excessive mental”

— Brian Harmon