Insanity Quotes

I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia...

She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had...

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool...

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look...

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watche...

All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s...

No, it didn't hurt. He didn't want to lose any black hair, and he was careful to pull out the white ...

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith--contentment with a lowly place...

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have m...

I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it t...

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art tha...

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compr...

...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might ...

For what was living with a man if it wasn't living inside his insanity?

all the tall mad mountains of her mind

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts o...

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insan...

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting t...

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probab...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the i...

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

People are crazy and times are strange,I'm locked in tightI'm out of range,I use to carebut things h...

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who wou...

preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the p...

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have...

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship!

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 ...