Madness and insanity in this blog refer to behavior considered unconventional,eccentric,and irrational or commonly identified as crazy and weird…it moves outside conventional expectations known as normal and offers a relief from the restraints of an over controlling ego.
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” ~Albert Einstein
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ~ Akira Kurosawa
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.~ Aristole
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ~ Baltasar Gracian
I’m a nut, but not just a nut. ~ Bill Murray
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom! ~ J G Ballard
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~ Bruce Feirstein
Insanity doesn’t run in my family. It gallops. ~ Cary Grant
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. ~ Isaac Newton
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. ~ Jean Dubuffet
There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know! ~ John Dryden
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~ Mark Twain
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. ~ Nathaniel Emmons
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