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Quotes About Insane

I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.
~ Josh Tillman
I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.
~ Lewis Black
Electric cars have an easy minimum range of 100 miles and a typical range of closer to 200 miles. And the technology is just getting started. We fight wars all over the world for oil, and we don't even need it. That, in and of itself, is insane.
~ Thom Hartmann
I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
~ Thomas Harris
Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the senses and the other second-class trivia that are found among the idle and mindless hours of the day....Damn them, they are wrong. They are insane.
~ Thomas Pynchon
We did just leave an insane asylum," Hi agreed. "For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.
~ Kathy Reichs
My feeling is that sanity is actually a pretence, a way we learn to behave. We keep this pretence up because we don't want to be rejected by other people—and being classified insane is to be shut out of the group in a very complete way.
~ Keith Johnstone
The lake was part of one of those insane irrigation schemes leading nowhere, built by forced labor under the Khmer Rouge. Judging by the height of the dam, a lot of Cambodians must have died during the construction.
~ Kenneth Cain
Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.
~ Kenneth Smith
Alert fatigue is the single biggest problem we have right now…We need to be more intelligent about our alerts or we'll all go insane.
~ Gene Kim
You just don't want to go to the barn in sweats with Elle there. Well, he hated to admit it, but that was probably the reason he was tottering back and forth on one foot and two sore armpits here in this insane closet that seemed about the same size as the house he and his dad used to live in.
~ Genell Dellin
The events we have passed through form a coherent pattern and the political actors who have shaped the world are rational--if not necessarily moral or decent--actors. Americans tend to think of its leaders as fools and knaves and of its enemies as psychotic. This seems to comfort us. While America's leaders might be knaves, they are not fools, and while our enemies might have utterly different moral values that are repugnant to us, they are far from insane.
~ George Friedman
The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long.
~ Ilona Andrews
The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
~ Steven Wright
When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.
~ Johnny Depp
'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show.
~ Eric Andre
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
~ James Louis Petigru
I have a song called 'Waffles Are Better Than Pancakes.' If I can't be goofy, I'll go insane.
~ Doja Cat
I'm now working with some of the best songwriters in the world and Sia has written a song that has been given to me. Oh my God, it's just insane.
~ Saara Aalto
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
~ Binyavanga Wainaina
Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.
~ Shannon L. Alder
They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity, i say i'd go insane if i stop.
~ Anjum Choudhary
She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
~ Charles Bukowski
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.
~ Charles Bukowski