Quotes About Insanity

Of all mad matches never was the likeBeing mad herself, she's madly mated.

But I miss screamin' and fightin' and kissin' in the rain and it's 2 a.m. and I'm cursin' your name. You're so in love the you act insane, and that's the way I loved you.

I can survive either love or insanity. But not both. And you bring me both.

Yes! The flies like it, too, and I like the flies, therefore I like it. And there are people who know so little as to think that madmen do not argue.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic

The poor wretch was doubtless torturing himself, after the manner of the insane, with needless thoughts of pain.

There is a method in his madness

Let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed.

Los locos siempre razonan bien, dentro de su propia esfera.

Permita que eu fique calmo, pois fora da tranquilidade só há insanidade.

Sometimes the only thing you need for madness is a memory burned into your eyes.

You don't have to be insane to cut people up, no matter how fiendishly you do it. You just have to hate enough.

Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

It was insanity, all of it hopeless, and there was nothing for it but to stare it down and laugh in its face. You did what you had to in a situation like this one. You did what your heart and your sense of right and wrong told you was needed.

We're all stuck in this world, and none of us made it the way it is. We don't like much about it, and I think if you want to live in it with some sense of responsibility, you have to find ways to keep it this side of becoming too insane.

If our love's tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?

In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.

I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.

Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn't mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.

Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.

They are tragic,' said Vetinari, 'and we laugh at their tragedy as we laugh at our own. The painted grin leers out at us from the darkness, mocking our insane belief in order, logic, status, the reality of reality. The mask knows that we are born on the banana skin that leads only to the open manhole cover of doom, and all we can hope for are the cheers of the crowd.

He asked you to shoot at people who weren't shooting back," growled Vimes, striding forward, "That makes him insane, wouldn't you say?" "They are throwing stones, Sarge," said Colon. "So? Stay out of range. They'll get tired before we do.

One said, Tell us…what is it like? "What is what like?" One said, Being insane. Being human.

Good so be would you if, duff plum of helping second A, said the Bursar. The table fell silent. Did anyone understand that? said Ridcully. The Bursar was not technically insane. He had passed through the rapids of insanity som time previously, and was now sculling around in some peaceful pool on the other side. He was quite often coherent, although not by normal human standards.