Daphne du Maurier Quotes

It's true we're all a little insane.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

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

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

Worse than madness. Sanity.

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

I have toyed with the idea of playing it straight. But, like I say, I really believe we are all out of our minds at some level.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

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

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

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.

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

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

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.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.