Quotes About Insanity

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

It is certifiably insane. The only thing worse than this unattainable standard is the guilt that follows when perfection proves impossible.

Ella estuvo allí. Formó parte de todo aquello. Vio la historia en primera fila. Y lo que vio la hizo enloquecer.

a display of teeth and a hint of joy or hilarity suggested the subject was 'plebeian, insane (or at least not in rational control) or else in the grip of some particularly powerful passion'.

an insane love for nudity desired but never possessed (42)

May she wake in torment! May you not rest as long as I am living! You said that I killed you – well haunt me, then! Be with me always – take any form – drive me insane! Only don't leave me in this darkness where I cannot find you! You know I can't live without my life! I can't live without my soul!

Si je gagne, je suis un génie, si je perd, je suis fou.

Why don't you write that sentence down and read it? Then perhaps you would realize how insane you are. -Linus Wynter

What? Now?' 'Yes. Now.' Kamar paced the tiny living room. 'That is crazy. Completely insane. Fowl cannot be here for a couple of days at the earliest. There's no need for us to spend two days breathing in that poison. What is the reasoning?' Mikhael extended the phone. 'You tell him. I'm sure the Menidzher will appreciate being told he is a madman.' Kamar

Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance—or in insanity.

I wonder sometimes whether a person has to become insane these days in order to feel certain things. Lessing once said, "Who doesn't become insane over certain things, has no sanity to lose

An individual may be alone in a physical sense for many years and yet he may be related to ideas, values, or at least social patterns that give him a feeling of communion and belonging. On the other hand, he may live among people and yet be overcome with an utter feeling of isolation, the outcome of which, if it transcends a certain limit, is the state of insanity which schizophrenic disturbances present.

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, man could become insane if he did not save himself by acquiring a secondary sense of self; he does that by experiencing himself as being approved of, worthwhile, successful, useful - briefly, as a salable commodity which is he because he is looked upon by others as an entity, not unique but fitting into one of the current patterns.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Insane Europeans who plot to cut each others' throats, now that one and the same civilisation enfolds and unites them all!

To seek perfection is to seek insanity, for even nature knows no such thing exists. To pursue it is an exercise in a lasting sense of failure with little reward at the end of the day.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

I always feel like people in general are much weirder and insane than anybody really wants to admit. How dare somebody watch anything and go, 'That's not real!' Go on the subway. For five minutes.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.