Quotes About Insanity

Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.

Quos [or Quem] deus vult perdere prius dementat [Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad].

It was strange how very bad men felt a need to live somewhere not just spectacular but slightly insane.

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Build a fence around the South and you'd have one big madhouse.

We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?

Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)

I love you, Dad. Your words are my lifeline. They keep me sane in an insane world. - Joshua

Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.

We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power.

There are some forms of insanity which, driven to an ultimate expression, can become the new models of sanity. — BuSab Manual

If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.

Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.

Caution: If you're a person who will one day mentor others, I have a sobering warning. If your ego hasn't been annihilated by the cross of Jesus Christ, you will end up becoming a Saul in the lives of those who are just as (or more) gifted than you are. And when God begins to elevate them in His service, you will go insane.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity

Writing sustains me. But wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it sustains this kind of life? Which does not, of course, mean that my life is any better when I don't write. On the contrary, at such times it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don't write — which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.