“The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.”

— Jim Butcher

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American author 1971

Michael Andrew Screech (1926–2018)

Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1998), p. 73

“Madness and insanity are two terms that are so vague and relative that you can’t really apportion proper values to them. The only thing I can think of that has any use it functional and dysfunctional. Are you working as well? In which case, it doesn’t matter if you are mad.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

De Abaitua interview (1998)

“In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.”

Graham Greene book Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana (1958)

“That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Maybe I should drive,” Troy said. “She knows what she’s doing,” Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. “What?” “The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

“I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life. It's what my shrink was saying to me all those years: You need to get mad! I think rage is so ugly. I just think there's a way to be mad and discuss it.”

Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States

Interview for Vogue magazine (December 2008)

“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”

Nathaniel Lee (1653–1692) British writer

Remark after being incarcerated in Bedlam for five years, as quoted in the Introduction of A Social History of Madness : The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (1987) by Roy Porter; also in "The Madness of King Jesus : Why was Jesus Put to Death, but his Followers were not?" by Justin J. Meggitt in Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol. 29, No. 4 (June 2007) http://jnt.sagepub.com/content/29/4/379.abstract.