Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

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.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

I can only presume that you have gone out of your mind.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

I'm insane, not forgetful.