Quotes About Insanity

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

The madman is a dreamer awake

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Nació con el don de la risa y con la sensación de que el mundo estaba loco. Y ese era todo su patrimonio.

17. To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so.

17. El perseguir imposibles es locura. Y es imposible que los malvados no cometan tales acciones.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane? Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand?

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage.

one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.

You are the pure embodiment of madness.

Maybe I was going mad. There had been enough pain for it and enough magic; there had been enough hunger, and enough blood.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

If you're mad enough to have killed a dozen people you're mad enough to be a fraction impatient. Surely?

Each species of intelligent life in the galaxy learned to limit its perceptions of the world it inhabited in order to preserve itself from insanity, then petrified those few chosen sensations into language. Once a child was brought up in a language system, it was impossible for her to hold a concept that couldn't be framed in that language.

So I had decided to do it the easy way. Make them believe he was insane and the scales would fall from their eyes; they would 'understand'; the fear, the hate would be gone, evaporated. "So thats it," they would say; "he's crazy. I knew it all along." They might even begin to pity and sympathize. Good old Hollywood Christianity: God's gift to the Defense.

What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)

Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don't you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon)

Yes, and for the record, he thinks you're insane, too. (Otto) Oh, goodie. But I guess that's only fair since I think he's psychotic. (Susan)

Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.