Paulo Coelho Quotes

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen

Sanity is a compromise.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

Too much sanity may be madness!

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.