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Quotes About Craziness

They're getting crazier every day, the whole world's going crazy. And you got to take your mind out to keep your smile in place.
~ Wilhelmina Baird
She had her shoes on now, and a diaper bag slung over one shoulder. In the opposite arm she cradled Andromeda, who was wearing both her Legolas Onesie and her Keebler booties. Which seemed wrong, you know—mixing two different kinds of elves like that. So now I knew Vicki was crazy.
~ Adam Rex
It's profoundly counter-intuitive for us to think of ourselves as mad. We seem so normal and mostly so good – to ourselves. It's everyone else who is out of step… And yet maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness. If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.
~ Alain de Botton
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
~ Richard Bach
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
~ Banana Yoshimoto, NP
It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.
~ Hilary Duff
Life is beautiful but people are crazy.
~ Charles Osgood
Maybe life is just a quiet affair, interspersed with moments of great happiness and grief. Maybe it is the quiet that needs to emerge again, to balance the current run of craziness.
~ jennifer olds
Let us make a pact, she said. To madness at every juncture!
~ Jesse Ball
The expression "madly in love" is apt, for it describes a form of temporary insanity.
~ Jessica Zafra
If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy,' he said aloud. 'But since I am not crazy, I do not care.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy. "If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy," he said aloud. "But since I am not crazy, I do not care. And the rich have radios to talk to them in their boats and to bring them the baseball
~ Ernest Hemingway
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong in everybody involved.
~ Robert Fulghum
Shut up! I say, holding my hands to my ears. Shut up! But the stupid gummy won't shut up; he's trying to tell me something important even though I'm covering my ears and I don't want to hear it and I don't want to think about who I am or what's wrong with me or why I'm out here at the edge of the Urb, at the edge of the known world, listening to some old mope who's so crazy, he think about the future when everyone knows that the future doesn't exist.
~ Rodman Philbrick
Ah, isso é inevitável - disse o Gato. — Somos todos malucos aqui. Eu sou maluco. Você é maluca. — Por que diz que sou maluca? - indagou Alice. — Só pode ser - disse o Gato, — ou não teria vindo parar aqui.
~ Lewis Carroll
Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?
~ Libba Bray
Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?
~ Libba Bray
No me interesa. El amor es un lío, niña. Deja que las demás se vuelvan locas y se hagan ilusiones. ¿Yo? Yo tengo planes.
~ Libba Bray
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
~ Joseph Heller
There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.
~ Dryden
I don't know a fucking thing. That must mean I'm finally sane and that's an excellent place to start going crazy again.
~ Jim Dodge
There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.
~ Joanne Greenberg
I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.
~ Joanne Greenberg
One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
~ Natalie Cole