Insanity Quotes

Spirals.... this town is contaminated with spirals.

Loving someone is very different from the heady feeling of being "in love, " which is, frankly, just temporary insanity.

is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

Once I Knew A Lovely Psychiatrist.I Always Thought She Had The Worst Patients.P. Hermans

I was sane once. It was horrible.

When I look at you as if you're crazy it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

Burnout…occurs because we’re trying to solve the same problem over and over.

A psychologist would probably diagnose insanity for a nation that spends more on its military than the next 8 nations combined, while its poor are starving.

I think I will drink my hemlock now....

The greywastes was a basin overflowing with insanity, the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died

Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.

I have to admit, insanity is so much fun.

What slave work do you want me to do for you?” asked Diogenes when he had been bought.“Be a teacher to my children, ” answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

If I died, I’d expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I’d haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I’d haunt the girl.

You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much.

Are you insane?” she’d replied. “Yes.” Jeoff didn’t even bat an eye as he admitted it.-Arabella & Jeoff

Insanity is nothing more than ordinary.

If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head.

If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

There is no reason why an individual, who has the misfortune to become insane, should, on that account, be deprived of any comfort or even luxury...

There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30, 000 feet as well ?

Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane.

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree.

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.

Just because I'm insane doesn't mean I have to act all crazy.

But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.

I know all about insanity. It's not that bad once you beat up everyone who teases you about it.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

...[I]f 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.

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy** some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

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

A strong and brave heart isn’t enough. A true heart, no matter how much the truth hurts, is the strongest of all.

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9

Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose.... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win

You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.