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Quotes About Insanity

There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.
~ Laura Kinsale
They be crazier than we are.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
~ Henry Miller
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
All humans are insane, they exists because insanity exists.
~ Prakhar Bansal
You're insane.""It'll work.""Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.
~ G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
John raised an eyebrow. "So you wouldn't date someone like you?""Oh, hell, no. I'm insane, but that would be nuts.
~ Forrest Carr
There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.
~ Alexander Ferrick, HACK3R
With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.
~ Ann Aguirre
People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
~ Erving Goffman
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
~ John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.
~ Unknown
The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.
~ Adam Roberts
We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.
~ Alain de Botton
Love reveals its insanity by its refusal to acknowledge the inherent NORMALITY of the loved one
~ Alain de Botton
There is a great difference between identifying a problem and solving it, between wisdom and the wise life. We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
~ Alain de Botton
You cannot evaluate an insane belief system from within it.
~ Alan Cohen
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
~ Alan Dean Foster
My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
~ Alan Moore
As he remembered Alma pointing out during their meeting of the previous year, it wasn't that he might have gone insane that was the prime cause for concern, but rather the alarming possibility that he might not have done.
~ Alan Moore
This was a war waged by damaged individuals, making victims of the innocent. Trying to be the catcher in the rye, as Fisk had, was insanity. Then again, despite the Sisyphean aspect of the job, somebody had to do it. Or at least try.
~ Dick Wolf
Amore di donna per una donna... Che insana smania di sofferenza non lenita e di maternità l'ha mai portato alla mente?»
~ Djuna Barnes
Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
~ Doctor Who