Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

I don't really trust a sane person.

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.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

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.

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 would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous 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.

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.'

Sanity is a cozy lie.

I am not a madman or a nut.

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

I'm not a madman.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.