Gloria Naylor Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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.

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 am not a madman or a nut.

I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

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

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

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

I'm definitely not as crazy as Fred!

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

Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

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

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

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

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.

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.