Quotes About Insanity

Driven to insanity, driven to the edge Driven to the point of almost no return Driven to think awful thoughts, do awful things But at least I'd like to think I've learned I'm driven Driven to be smarter Driven to work harder Driven to be better everyday Driven to keep on and on To achieve the things I want I'll be sorry if I don't Make the most of livin' I'm driven

You know what you did? You embraced the insanity you were telling us about. – Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

The family seems to have two predominant functions to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Control your life through insanity.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.

So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?

For an idea that does not at first seem insane, there is no hope.

At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

Let us make a pact, she said. To madness at every juncture!

The expression "madly in love" is apt, for it describes a form of temporary insanity.

The insane person or the dreamer fails completely in having an objective view of the world outside; but all of us are more or less insane, or more or less asleep; all of us have an unobjective view of the world, one which is distorted by our narcissistic orientation.

The absolute failure to achieve this aim means insanity, because the panic of complete isolation can be overcome only by such a radical withdrawal from the world outside that the feeling of separation disappears—because the world outside, from which one is separated, has disappeared.

A pessoa insana, ou o sonhador, falha completamente em ter uma visão objetiva do mundo exterior; mas todos nós somos mais ou menos insanos, ou mais ou menos adormecidos; todos nós temos uma visão não objetiva do mundo, falseada pela nossa orientação narcisista.

While psychiatry is concerned with the question of why some people become insane, the real question is why most people do not become insane.

At first alienists describes this condition as "moral insanity" and those who exhibited the disorder as "moral imbeciles." They later adopted the term "psychopath".