Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

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

When you are like a maniac, you just have to accept where you are and what's going on in your life.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

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.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

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.

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

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

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

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

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

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

I am emotional, but that's not a negative.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

I'm still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect