Rohinton Mistry Quotes

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

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.

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

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

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

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

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.