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Quotes About Insanity

But that is precisely what war is. It is madness," Einstein said, pinching the cigarette between two fingers. "Nothing less than madness.
~ Robert Masello
Fine, let's have the We're-safe-in-here-it's-INSANE-for-you-to-go-out conversation instead.
~ Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.
~ Robin McKinley
A sane person in a world gone crazy has always been considered insane, you know?
~ Robin S. Sharma
My Trumps do not work here, not even the Trumps of Doom. My magic is useless to me, limited as it is by walls the color of Luke's ring. I begin to feel that I might enjoy even the escape of temporary insanity, but my reason refuses to surrender to it, there being too many puzzles to trouble me: Dan Martinez, Meg Devlin, my Lady of the Lake…Why?
~ Roger Zelazny
Scientologists are trained to believe that whatever happens to them is somehow their fault, so much of the discussion in the Hole centered on what they had done to deserve this fate. The possibility that the leader of the church might be irrational or even insane was so taboo that no one could even think it, much less voice it aloud.
~ Lawrence Wright
Habitually, and perhaps unconsciously, Hubbard would fill this gap—between reality and his interpretation of it—with mythology. This was the source of what some call his genius and others call his insanity. WHEN
~ Lawrence Wright
So he died, because for a split-second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split-second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic.
~ Lee Child
for in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing.
~ Lee Smith
He could not bear the thought of training, not only because of the effort he could never summon from himself now, but also because the idea of fighting was disorienting in its repugnance. He felt that everyone at the Lido Gym was insane. One
~ Leonard Gardner
We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad
~ Lewis Carroll
Only the insane equate pain with success. The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die. _Cheshire Cat
~ Lewis Carroll
She's stark raving mad!
~ Lewis Carroll
You'd have to be half mad to dream me up
~ Lewis Carroll
Las mejores personas estan completamente locas
~ Lewis Carroll
He perdido la razón? - Me temo que sí. Estás demente. Pero te diré un secreto. Las mejores personas lo están.
~ Lewis Carroll
Creo que si, que has perdido la cabez, estás completamente loco. Pero te diré un secreto: las mejores personas lo están. (Sombrerero).
~ Lewis Carroll
Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?
~ Libba Bray
Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?
~ Libba Bray
Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.
~ Linda Lael Miller
Not the cute kind of cuckoo, or the lights-on-but-nobody's-home loony. She's really, genuinely, sold my-soul-to-the-devil crazy. She don't care about me or anyone else in the place. I mean, sure, she killed Frankie. And maybe she wanted to save the rest of us or whatever. But mostly, she just plain wanted to kill him. I mean, she stabbed him like a zillion times. Then licked his blood. I don't remember Wonder woman ever doing that at the end of an episode.
~ Lisa Gardner
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
~ Joseph Heller
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
~ Aldous Huxley