Quotes About Insanity

As sociedades modernas vivem tempos insanos. A serenidade é um artigo de luxo

The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?

He grew first to wish to become mad, next to believe that he should become so, and only to be afraid that the expected delirium might not come on soon enough to prevent his appearance for examination before the Lords--a fear, the bare existence of which shows how slight a barrier remained between him and the insanity which he fancied that he longed for.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

So, in God's relationship to us, we might wonder, "Am I really saved?" "Am I of the elect?" "Is God angry with me?" "Why does God allow suffering in the world?" In each case, if we leave out the Cross, questions like these can drive us to despair or insanity.

It was in this instant of confusion that I realized for the first time that I am in some degree insane.

It was in this instant of confusion that I realized for the first time that I am in some degree insane. It could be argued that it was the most harrowing of my life.

A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.

I would never tie in creative with a talent's contract. To me, that is insanity. Creative needs change, talents evolve or not, and to be locked in to a talent having the ability to not run the plays that the team dictates is not smart business.

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

I left the room in a daze, wondering if this was all real-or if I'd finally gone insane from whacking the weasel.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

But he was left with the all-too-familiar feeling of having been infected by insanity, of being drawn into someone else's insanity.

I wasn't possessed—I was insane!

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

It's a well-known fact. All women are clinically insane, but especially ballet dancers. Psycho. extremely psycho. Trust me.