Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

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

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

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

I don't really trust a sane person.

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

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

It's important you don't lose touch with reality because, well, reality's the only thing you've got, really.

If the way I see the world is mad, then fantastic.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Sanity is a compromise.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.