Quotes About Insanity

Not to be mad is another form of madness

There is madness in the mind.

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

Goodrich eyed his parents with growing awareness. "How did the police find him?" "I called them." They peered into each other's faces for a long, mute moment, Goodrich pondering absently that he was looking into a mirror that reflected how he himself would appear in another forty years, if he somehow managed to survive the insanity that Vietnam had brought him and live that long.

Come on; wake up to the fact that constructing your own reality is another way of defining insanity!

Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive . One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic...

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

I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.

The common saying about cryptologists, as William phrased it, was that "it is not necessary" to be insane, "but it helps.

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

Marco lives in a fantasy world, one that's more interesting and more fun than reality. That's the definition of being insane, surely?" said my son, Raul "I suppose so," I said. "It's like Don Quixote.

Being crazy isn't enough.

Jack the Orderly: I've come for your tv. You've been using too much juice. Another 10,000 kilowatts again this month. Beats me how an old, homicidal loony can use that much power.

But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.

Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species.

If the history of humanity were the clinical case history of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: chronic paranoid delusions, a pathological propensity to commit murder and acts of extreme violence and cruelty against his perceived "enemies"—his own unconsciousness projected outward. Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals.

The fact that everyone else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Now they are engaged in destroying nature and the planet that sustains them. Unbelievable but true. Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species. That's not a judgment. It's a fact. It is also a fact that the sanity is there underneath the madness. Healing and redemption are available right now.

La mente egotista colectiva es la entidad más peligrosamente demente y destructiva que jamás habitó este planeta.

Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals.

Teachings that pointed the way beyond the dysfunction of the human mind, the way out of the collective insanity, were distorted and became themselves part of the insanity.

If the history of humanity were the clinical case of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: ... clinically insane with a few brief lucid intervals.

Ya sé que Antonio Machín lo hizo antes pero no tengo más remedio que preguntártelo: ¿cómo se pueden tener dos amores a la vez y no estar loco? - Facilísimo: estando loca.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.