George Orwell Quotes

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.

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

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

No one was normal, not really.

Anyone who is different or is slightly out of the norm, is considered crazy.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

I am not a normal man.

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

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

Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

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

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

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

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

All I want to be is normally insane.