Isadora Duncan Quotes

the mad have a grace all their own

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

I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

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

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

To punish madmen is as great folly as to sympathize with their condition

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

There's not many people that can handle my sheer madness.

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

There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric.

Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Being crazy isn't enough.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

All I want to be is normally insane.