Insanity Quotes

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 ...

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legit...

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everythi...

The young man was sort of ... well ... peering at this shovel, and Lisey knew not by his face but by...

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they wer...

Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I’ll...

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow brig...

Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same cloud...

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet th...

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, t...

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dro...

Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore...

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’...

I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret thin...

It's madness, of course', thought Moist. 'But now I've got it, too.

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the tu...

Insanity is catching.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Ridcully sighed.'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's pla...

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than t...

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses ...

There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...

From around the corner's edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an omino...

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much a...

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling th...

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daf...

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...