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Quotes About Insane

And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, Kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
~ Sylvia Plath
Peer into the eye of Jinn ad see your future Listen to the whispering of a Jinn and go insane. Morrocan proverb.
~ Tahir Shah
Scrying the wind is very difficult, Tris," Niko said gently. "It's like scrying the future. You're assailed with thousands of images — fragments, really. It drives many who try it insane." "You learned to scry the future," Tris pointed out. "And a number of people have informed me they think I am mad," Niko replied, his voice very dry.
~ Tamora Pierce
What are you doing?" Seth asked. He had only one chocolate rosebud left. She would need to hide her chocolates someplace more secure than the nightstand drawer. She held up a final page. The light revealed nothing. "Practicing for my audition at the insane asylum." "I bet you'll win first prize," he teased. "Unless they see your face," she retorted.
~ Brandon Mull
My association with you has been convincing people I'm insane for years now.
~ Brandon Sanderson
That third one is the most fun. Kind of like gym class for the murderously insane.
~ Brandon Sanderson
But then, he's a Smedry. That's virtually a synonym for "insane, foolhardy lunatic.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It was not that I didn't wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was rooted as deeply as I was shaken. Was there a secret at Bly—a mystery of Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected confinement?
~ Henry James
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
~ Henry Miller
Oh, well, these are night thoughts produced by walking in the rain after two thousand years of Christianity. At least now the birds are well provided for, and the cats and dogs. Every time I pass the concierge's window and catch the full icy impact of her glance I have an insane desire to throttle all the birds in creation. At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love—just enough to feed the birds.
~ Henry Miller
It was totally insane doing goat yoga in San Francisco.
~ Gino D'Acampo
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'
~ John Landis
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
~ Jonathan Lethem
This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen's eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the 'criminally insane' label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle's legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both.
~ Stephen Richards
Terry Tanaka wrapped a blanket around him as he entered the command center. "Diving in the sea like that—are you insane?" "Technically, Mac and I did spend three months together in a mental ward.
~ Steve Alten
Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods? A murder of crows, a murder of gods-I like that, lass.
~ Steven Erikson
When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.
~ Martin H. Fischer
The last Company Flow reunion show in New York City was pretty insane. Everybody knew all the words to every song; everybody had smiles on their faces. Those shows are what you hope for every time you get on the stage.
~ El-P
I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
~ Kristin Davis
It [Iranian Islamic Revolution] is perhaps the first great insurrection against global systems, the form of revolt that is the most modern and the most insane.
~ Michel Foucault
Lydia had been fantasizing about him to the point she nearly drove him insane with it. It had taken four days for his energy to weaken inside her enough that he could go and visit her without fear she would throw him across the town in a gust of wind, and thus cause a scene. Although, getting run out of town after one day would be a new MacGregor record.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
~ Rufus Choate
I'd love to play someone who's insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that's ironic. That's where we are, but seriously, it'd be really cool to play a superhero.
~ Christian Serratos