John Dryden Quotes

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

The United States is a madhouse.

I'm not a madman.

... madness entered my veins.

America is a lunatic asylum.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

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

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I've always been a lunatic.

I'm a lunatic.

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!