Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

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

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

I'm not crazy in my head. Maybe in everybody else's.

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

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

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

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

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.