Insanity Quotes

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are...

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having...

Belane, are you nuts?"Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

So be careful when you bend over.

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips y...

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

have you taken leave of your senses

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then...

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be in...

And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself for...

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they...

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets...

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Th...

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had,...

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless...

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudde...

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and t...

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,...

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not...

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society pr...

Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous pow...

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in un...

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by ...

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru...

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule...

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and ...

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe...

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their...

Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor sha...

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think ...

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.