Samuel Beckett Quotes

I'm not a madman.

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

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

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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 became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

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

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

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?

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

All I want to be is normally insane.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

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

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

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

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

I don't really trust a sane person.

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

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

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

I think everybody's nuts.

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.'