David Eddings Quotes

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

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

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.

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 became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

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

Insanity is just a state of mind.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

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

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

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

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

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

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.