Quotes About Insanity

madness that didn't involve mania or depression or psychosis. He called it 'manie sans delire' – insanity without delusions.

He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and "the Singularity's chosen avatar

And the proof of his insanity? His belief that the U.S. government was a repressive conspiracy that muzzled radical opinion. Only an insane person would believe that! The Unabomber had really, really liked Leila.

You on the floor in a fugue state, me not knowing what to do. It's remarkable how high-functioning you are, for an insane person. I'm the only one who gets to see you on the floor.

The alternative—sanity—became insane. Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.

he too went bonkers, probably due to the mercury used in preparing top hats—hence "as mad as a hatter.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.

Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.

Ako i nije bila »mentalno zaostala« bila je luda stoposto. Ili joÅ¡ gore, jedna od onih vje?ito veselih žena.

In the comics, there's a lot to sort of digest with Five. He's 58-years-old. He's trapped in this body. He has a genius level intellect. He's insane. He has a wife who's a mannequin. And when you're reading this on the page, it's just like, Wait, wait, what?'

I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall.

I think every brilliant mind is a little bit crazy.

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

I must really be crazy, now—because craziness is where everybody agrees about something,—except you!

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

You're insane! I won't argue that point.

Your insanity is beautifully complete!

It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.

Did you ever read that story about the man who traveled to the future and found everyone there insane? Everyone. But since they were all insane they didn't know they were all insane. They all acted alike and so they thought themselves normal. And since our hero was the only sane one among them, he was abnormal; therefore, he was the insane one. To them, at least. Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happend. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them enemies! hidden out of sight somewhere.

Unhappy Europe! Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children!