Quotes About Insanity

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

Madness has a purpose! It's a gift from the Gods, and like all their gifts it comes with a price

Modern philosophy begins with Descartes, whose fundamental certainty is the existence of himself and his thoughts, from which the external world is to be inferred. This was only the first stage in a development, through Berkeley and Kant, to Fichte, for whom everything is only an emanation of the ego. This was insanity, and, from this extreme, philosophy has been attempting, ever since, to escape into the world of every-day common sense.

Needless to say, in a country where nothing makes sense only crazy acts do.

If one really stopped to think about the insane way the universe is arranged one would go mad in no time, so now and then it's good to laugh, it's therapeutic, it dilutes the pain

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

Sometimes actresses are just insane.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

I am constantly amazed at the musicians that are able to do the same thing over and over for 20 or more years. That would drive me absolutely insane.