Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.

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

It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.

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

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

And how do you know that you're mad?

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

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

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

We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

I lead my life as normal.

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

People think I'm totally crackers.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

I am not a madman or a nut.

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

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.