Paulo Coelho Quotes

He’s off his rocker.

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

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.

I think everybody's nuts.

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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

… the ravings of a maniac

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

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

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

I've always been a lunatic.

I'm a lunatic.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

All I want to be is normally insane.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

The tiny madman in his padded cell.

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

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