Insanity Quotes

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher

Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a swee...

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I teach that all men are mad.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and ther...

is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane peopl...

I am a sick man - oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care f...

Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line...

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could ...

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of ...

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.

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

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.

Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled...

Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled...

Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the fu...

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

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part,...

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es...

At night I locked my bedroom door, because [my father] could not sleep and would insist on talking t...

If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, im...

Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

It's true,' replied Doris with a sniff in Bessy's direction to make her sensible of a victory, even ...

And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is s...

To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the wa...

Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said,...

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe.""'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', ...

Religion is induced insanity.

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived...

When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It ...

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned...

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of o...

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's ...

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one ...

April 43rd 2000Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at las...

God made them as stubble to our swords.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its...

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not s...

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered....

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place fo...

Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to...

Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so with...

all you had to do was to keep your insanity undercontrol

Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. An...

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken a...

We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silve...

He was walking around in circles, the smell of the old furniture suddenly very distinct. There was a...

His terror became his companion. When it seemed to diminish, or grow easier to bear, he forced himse...

I am the scourge of God

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue f...

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the l...

But, he thought, what does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see it, b...

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane...

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.

Out of his zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from Seneca to Rousseau, he...

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you ca...

Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at...

Insane people give me hope.""What!!!!" I almost dropped my beer."The insane have decided to stay on,...

You're insane!""I won't argue that point.

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deepl...

In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female p...

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. L...

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, ...

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

You're bloody insane, Karede," Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I.

I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in t...

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the who...

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no ...