Quotes About Insanity

On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

The patients on Tuke Ward were a pleasant and tractable bunch and practised insanity with a certain elan.

By the eighteenth century the most reliable way to get a bath was to be insane. Then they could hardly soak you enough. In 1701, Sir John Floyer began to make a case for cold bathing as a cure for any number of maladies. His theory was that plunging a body into chilly water produced a sensation of "Terror and Surprize" which invigorated dulled and jaded senses.

Ruskin never escaped his prudish ways or gave any indication of desiring to. After the death of J. M. W. Turner, in 1851, Ruskin was given the job of going through the works left to the nation by the great artist and found several watercolors of a cheerfully erotic nature. Horrified, Ruskin decided that they could only have been drawn "under a certain condition of insanity," and for the good of the nation destroyed almost all of them, robbing posterity of several priceless works.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.

we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep....

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac.

I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength; and as I knew I was a madman—at times anyhow—I resolved to use my power.

How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something?

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast.

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that the poets and singers specialized in madness?

They were the Epperson sisters, and they had distinguished themselves in the minds of the Neelyites by going from reasonably normal to unquestionably insane without ever pausing at peculiar.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

The powers of insanity never slept, always vying for a voice that justified their lies. Insanity. The insane self. The false self. The flesh self. The ego, the mistaken mind, the costume, the roommate…

No cualquiera se vuelve loco, esas cosas hay que merecerlas.

Svaki nered se opravdava ako teži da iza?e iz sebe, možda se kroz ludilo može dospjeti do razuma koji ne?e biti onaj razum ?iji je nedostatak ludilo.

Genius and lunacy were well known to be next-door neighbours.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.