William Golding Quotes

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

All I want to be is normally insane.

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

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

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

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

It's true we're all a little insane.

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

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

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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.

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