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Quotes About Insanity

He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.
~ Jeanine Cummins
She points the phone back to her own face. 'So can we be finished now, yes? Or should we keep on killing people?' Javier unleashes a noise that's half sob and half laughter. He wants to plead not guilty by reason of grief. She knows grief is a kind of insanity. She knows.
~ Jeanine Cummins
I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.
~ Jeanne Tripplehorn
Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?
~ Jeff Lindsay
I'm doing this because I'm insane. Doesn't my mad cackle make me sound insane?
~ Jeff Strand
I didn't much want to listen to constructive criticism from somebody whose decision making process so far seemed to be "What can I do that's more insane than the last thing I did?
~ Jeff Strand
If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.
~ Eliot Schrefer
The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
the Upanishads suggest that so-called chaos may have an actual divine function, even if you personally can't recognize it right now: The best we can do, then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally-no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
This was madness; this was delirium.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
THERE WERE THOSE who compared Bedlam to hell—a writhing purgatory of torture and insanity. But Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne, knew what Bedlam really was. It was limbo. A place of interminable waiting.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
It may well be that a society's greatest madness seems normal to itself.
~ Allan Bloom
You're Insane-Molly You know what they say. It's the ones who are sure they are sane that aren't. -Holt
~ Allison Leigh
Due to sin, the knowledge of God provided by the sensus divinitatis, prior to faith and regeneration, is both narrowed in scope and partially suppressed. The faculty itself may be diseased and thus partly or wholly disabled. There is such a thing as cognitive disease; there is blindness, deafness, inability to tell right from wrong, insanity; and there are analogues of these conditions with respect to the operation of the sensus divinitatis.
~ Alvin Plantinga
Prince Kanta was crazy!
~ Alyson Noel
Japón es un país que sabe lo que significa volverse loco
~ Amelie Nothomb
Para mí, un loco es un ser cuyo comportamiento resulta inexplicable. El mío, en cambio, puedo explicarlo
~ Amelie Nothomb
Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou
~ Amelie Nothomb
I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn't know what else to look for.
~ Lecrae
There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.
~ Don Novello
For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
~ Omari Hardwick
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I could have been a superstar in America - I was certainly taken out there. But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
~ Charlotte Rampling