Quoth the Madman

 

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,

And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

(John Dryden, in 1681)

 

Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
(Edgar Allan Poe)

 

Reality is something you rise above.

(Liza Minnelli)

 

I don't really trust a sane person.
(Lyle Alzado)

 

Neurotics build castles in the sky, and psychotics live in them, and people like me just pretend to live in them.
(Andvari Huntress)

 

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
(Theodore Roethke, from “In a Dark Time”)

 

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
(Henry Rollins)

 

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
(Norm Papernick)

 

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
(Aristotle)

 

Sift through my insanity and revel in my greatness.
(Stone Richardsohn)

 

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
(Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch humanist, from Praise of Folly, Chapter 38)

 

That is the truest sign of insanity— insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
(Nora Ephron)

 

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

(Harry Shearer)

 

There is no great genius without a tincture of madness.

(Seneca)

 

We poets in our youth begin in gladness;

But thereof comes in the end, despondency and madness.

(William Wordsworth)

 

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
(Angela Monet)

 

Some above quotes from:

http://www.neuroticpoets.com

http://www.angelfire.com/fl/SugarGoddess/Quotes.html

 

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