Behave Quote by John Irving

... 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

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

— Graham Greene

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to…

— Brian Posehn

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

— Brian Harmon

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or…

— James Joyce

He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.

— Paul Theroux

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

“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his footsteps and…

— Laura Elliot

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people…

— Lois McMaster Bujold