Quotations and Literature Forum

I'm looking for quotes that examplify the good in being crazy or insane. Anyone?

There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
John Dryden

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Every man, every man has to go through hell to reach his paradise.
Robert De Niro, Cape Fear

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

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Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Great quotes thank you all!

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
- Ozzy Osbourn

If the ozz man is crazy, then it must not be so bad.

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My name is supposed to say Ayreon, with the E before the O. This is the name of my favorite band. The name Ayroen is just a typo.