Anne Fortier Quotes

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

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

Too much sanity may be madness!

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

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

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

All I want to be is normally insane.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Sanity is a compromise.

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.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.