Quotes About Insanity

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

Locura es hacer la misma cosa una y otra vez esperando obtener diferentes resultados

There is nothing that is more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different

Die reinste Form des Wahnsinns ist es, alles beim alten zu lassen und zu hoffen, dass sich etwas ändert.

Szale?stwo: wykonywanie tej samej czynno?ci bez ko?ca i spodziewanie si?, ?e da to odmienne rezultaty.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king." Mr. Bahu's face was positively twinkling with Voltairean glee. "He gets lynched.

Everybody should stick to the insanity that God has seen fit to curse him with.

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

For the first time in my life I was being absolutely myself, freed from all inhibitions of body, intellect and training...I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane and answering Of course I am-sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

He was a thread of gold running straight into the woof of a carpet woven by a madman.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat,

There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Oh my god, two days ago I fell in love with the girl of my dreams. Tonight I find out she's insane

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

The boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief simple moments of companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.