Insanity Quotes - Page 4

Insane people give me hope.""What!!!!" I almost dropped my beer."The insane have decided to stay on," Crumley said. "They love life so much that, rather than destroy it, they go behind a self-made wall to hide. Pretend not to hear, but the do hear. Pretend not to see, but see. Insanity says: I hate living but love life. Hate the rules but do like me. So, rather than drop in graves, I hide out. Not in liquor, nor in bed under sheets, nor in a needle's prick or snuffs of white powder, but in madness. On my own shelf, in my own rafters, under my own silent roof. So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sand and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

Ray Bradbury

He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.

Ransom Riggs

Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.

Katie Kacvinsky

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

Robin McLaurin Williams

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Philip K Dick

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Dodie Smith

She disappeared; her voice, her laughter, and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again.

Durgesh Satpathy

Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment

Jeremy Aldana

He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. “You’re not crazy. I love you.

Lauren Hammond

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

Terry Pratchett

I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G.K. Chesterton

It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception and neither are you.

Matthew Hunt

What a waste it is to lose one's mind.Or not to have a mind. How true that is.

Dan C. Quayle

Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back. I can give myself up to the sacred frenzy, I can have the insolence to make a full confession to mortal men that I have stolen the golden vessel of the Egyptians to make from them a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of the land of Egypt. If you forgive me I shall rejoice; if you are angry, I shall bear it; I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen.

Johannes Kepler

I suddenly remembered that Murray Gell-Mann and I were supposed to give talks at that conference on the present situation of high-energy physics. My talk was set for the plenary session, so I asked the guide, "Sir, where would the talks for the plenary session of the conference be?""Back in that room that we just came through.""Oh!" I said in delight. "Then I'm gonna give a speech in that room!"The guide looked down at my dirty pants and my sloppy shirt. I realized how dumb that remark must have sounded to him, but it was genuine surprise and delight on my part. We went along a little bit farther, and the guide said, "This is a lounge for the various delegates, where they often hold informal discussions." They were some small, square windows in the doors to the lounge that you could look through, so people looked in. There were a few men sitting there talking. I looked through the windows and saw Igor Tamm, a physicist from Russia that I know. "Oh!" I said. "I know that guy!" and I started through the door.The guide screamed, "No, no! Don't go in there!" By this time he was sure he had a maniac on his hands, but he couldn't chase me because he wasn't allowed to go through the door himself!

Richard Feynman

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)

Thomas Ligotti

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

Anthony Kiedis

He was nuts. He'd scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane.Not that that's ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.

Jordan Castillo Price

I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?

C.K. Kelly Martin

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

George Orwell

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Hermann Hesse

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Jalaluddin Rumi

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

Charles Bukowski

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

Mahatma Gandhi

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

Gabrielle Zevin

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Susanna Kaysen

I rolled my eyes. "He's talking to himself. My vote is he's crazy." He thought about this. "Maybe he's normal and we're the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we're all just afraid of what we'd say.

Katie Kacvinsky

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been. And to protect their delicate vision of that other time, madmen will justify their condition with touching loyalty, and surround it with a thousand distractive schemes. These schemes, in turn, drive them deeper and deeper into the darkness and light (which is their mortification and their reward), and confront them with a choice. They may either slacken and fall back, accepting the relief of a rational view and the approval of others, or they may push on, and, by falling, arise. When and if by their unforgivable stubbornness they finally burst through to worlds upon worlds of motionless light, they are no longer called afflicted or insane. They are called saints.

Mark Helprin

Never attempt to apply logic to madness, for there is none; it is the nature of madness to be illogical.

Navessa Allen

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

Douglas Adams

There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.

Zoë Heller

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Richard Yates

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

James Lee Burke

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

John Irving

You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rach

Kim Harrison

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.

Dave Chappelle

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

George Orwell

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

George Eliot

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

Joss Whedon

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

Toni Morrison

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

Neil Gaiman

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Ray Bradbury

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

Terry Pratchett

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

Insanity is catching.

Terry Pratchett

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

Edgar Allan Poe

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Emilie Autumn

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

Salvador Dalí

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Graham Greene

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Rita Mae Brown

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

Janet Evanovich

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

Insanity is intuition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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