Samuel Johnson Quotes

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

I'm a lunatic.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

'Insanity... I like it."

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.

There are some loony people in this world!

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

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.

Insanity is contagious.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

If you went crazy, would you know it?

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.