Insanity Quotes

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

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

George Santayana

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mad bad and dangerous to know.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

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

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

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

Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.

Sophocles

Though this be madness yet there is method in 't.

William Shakespeare

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Mad as a March hare.

James Orchard Halliwell

I teach that all men are mad.

Horace

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

That he is mad 'tis true 'tis true 'tis pity And pity 'tis 'tis true.

William Shakespeare

Please don't question the insane glaresJust give me today,And tomorrow,Tomorrowwe will matter.

That's crazier than a boatload of prostitutes!

J. Richard Singleton

Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.

She stopped shrieking after a moment. It wasn't the crazy looks she drew from the other pedestrians that made her stop. And her damaged sanity hadn't managed to repair itself. She'd left something behind in that apartment. Something she'd always taken for granted. Faith in a rational world. It was like a tiny cog had been removed from her brain, and all the gears were still working, but a slight wobble was slowly and inevitably stripping the teeth until one day, without warning the Rube Goldberg device that was her mind would fall apart with a loud SPROING.

A. Lee Martinez

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

Brandon Sanderson

How are you still sane?""Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."Shit.

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once.

If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

Kelley Armstrong

You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

Mercedes Lackey

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Kyubey: ...Oh, geez. I never would have thought you capable of throwing your friend off a bridge. That wasn't a sane act, Madoka!

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

And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness.

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

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Joseph Kesselring

It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.

Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

Christopher Hill

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

Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book.” Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. “And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.

Who was this girl alone so late at nightin search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s intrusion? Those eyes belonged to the most beautiful maniac I’ve ever met. Our love is a vine of entrails that can follow any coffin anywhere, no matter how deep any gravedigger might travel.

Nicholaus Patnaude

There is madness in every single being, is there not?

So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane?Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand?

You could string a hundred endless days together,My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

Jalaluddin Rumi

I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

Francis A.Schaeffer

Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.

Martijn Benders

Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

When you aim high and you want to create a difference, all you need is a SPARK from your heart.

Vishal Bhojwani

Insanity on top of insanity. Even the voices in his head were hearing voices. Nice.

Michael Wallace

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. iv, p. 327).

Thomas Jefferson

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