Diogenes Quotes

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

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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.

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

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 became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

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

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

I am not a madman or a nut.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

I'm not a madman.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

Many a man has been certified insane for less than the noble lord has done this afternoon.

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