Quotes About Insanity

car j'ai appris que tous les hommes extraordinaires qui ont fait quelque chose de grand, quelque chose qui semblait impossible, ont de tout temps été qualifiés d'ivres et d'insensés.

a man wholly under the influence of his passions has lost his ability to think rationally, and is regarded as intoxicated or insane.

have been intoxicated more than once, my passions have never been far off insanity, and I have no regrets: because I have come to realize, in my own way, that people have always felt a need to decry the extraordinary men who accomplish great things, things that seemed impossible, as intoxicated and insane

Religion is the opium of the People. She had been made to repeat that parrot-wise when she was a child, but since living in England she had come to consider Karl Marx a dull bigot and had started to take an interest in the occult. But Meg's fluttering hands and crazed confession told her that the slogan was true. Religion and the supernatural were drugs: mental poisons to kill reason and create insanity.

It looked like the beginning of a warm relationship based on a common lunacy.

A sane accusation can be refuted. An insane accusation, one that makes no sense on any level, cannot be refuted, cannot even be addressed, because it is insolent nonsense. There is no sober way to defend oneself from the accusation of being a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.

Always keep in mind what I seek to find in her, for I am none of those insane lovers who embrace also the vices of those with whom they are in love, where they are smitten at first sight with a fine figure. This only is the beauty that allures me: if she is chaste, if not too fussy or fastidious, if economical, if patient, if there is hope that she will be interested about my health.

Great wits are to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

'Insanity... I like it."

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

Someone has defined insanity as an inability to choose among false alternatives. In dreams we are insane. We wander across our limitless dreamscapes as madmen.

I am not certain but the partition which separates madness from genius is much thinner than most of us suspect.

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.

The ground reality of life is that the henpecked husband can neither be protected from committing stupidity nor be prevented of their insanity.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.