Insanity Quotes

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 ...

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 ...