Quotes About Insanity

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

What insanity would lead me to believe that I possess the power, much less the aptitude to manipulate all of the consequences out of all of my decisions?

This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.

It was so damn strange, John thought, how sometimes the most unlikely, an ugly little man like this one, could hold such power. He had a tremendous command presence, his voice sweet, rich, carrying power. So strange how some had that, could spout utter insanity and others would follow blindly.

There's method in his madness.

This is very midsummer madness.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

Mad world! mad kings, mad composition!

To put an antic disposition on.

There is a method to madness!

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

Contrary to what you may think, the legal system was neither founded upon nor designed to reflect the common decency found in normal human relationships. It primarily works like the rules for a lunatic asylum. It tries to govern people driven insane by the inflated idea of their own worth.

How on earth Nietzsche, a supporter of Dionysus, went through a phase of vegetarianism is mind-boggling. Just as bad, Nietzsche was no fan of alcohol. No wonder Dionysus smote his sacrilegious ass and drove him insane, a common fate for all those that defy Dionysus.

I'm not crazy," I said, crazily, to my court-appointed therapist.

Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

Insanity can inhibit a person from thinking consciously about his or her thoughts and actions that can result him or her to perform dangerous acts without realizing at all.

Madness is freedom and some may only perceive its Insanity.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

The only explanation I can think of is that he is insane, and there are so many insane people in the world that it isn't even interesting.