Quotes About Insanity

It feels good knowing you are part of a long and glorious tradition of suffering, insanity, and excess.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat! --- ANTONIN ARTAUD

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

The Nazi regime had trapped the whole population of the country as accomplices, willing or not, in its own crimes, and its own insanity.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

No information could be got from the lady herself, who was temporarily insane from an acute attack of brain fever.

Do you think this wild idea might work?" "It's insane," growled Boaz. "Utter lunacy, too far-fetched to be credible. Of course it'll work.

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy,And moon-struck madness.

I say, thou mad March hare.

This had happened before. She had remembered, only to see it all slip away. She had been insane, many times.

Are you out of your princely wits?" What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!

Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

It was insanity, but it sounded romantic.

6] Then the ambassador asked him, "Can you make it true that you yourself are insane?" The provider of arguments said, "I could, but I don't want to. Who isn't insane?" Then people asked the provider of arguments to say from the heart whether he was joking or whether he really believed that there is no truth except what people make out to be true. He replied, "That is what I believe, I swear." Afterward

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.