John Forbes Nash Jr. Quotes

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

[General William Tecumseh] Sherman is gone in the head.

I can only presume that you have gone out of your mind.

I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.

I'm definitely not as crazy as Fred!

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

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

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

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

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

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