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Quotes About Insanity

When I'm in the kitchen, I don't want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system - and the system, it's another form of insanity that has grabbed me.
~ Christian Slater
When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Is there worse than insane?
~ Karen Marie Moning
When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you've got problems.
~ Karen Marie Moning
When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you've got problems. It
~ Karen Marie Moning
Below me, inside me, there's a pit that's dark and comforting and quite completely insane. If I sink into it, I can be free of all torture.
~ Karen Marie Moning
on Georg Trakl:] it was always inconceivable to me that he could live. His madness wrestled with godly things.
~ Karl Kraus
Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the asylum?" (Editorial, The Times , 22 July 1853)
~ Kate Summerscale
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Isn't that the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, then the darkness stole away any signs of hope.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Sometimes I felt like I would go insane not having the answers to such simple questions. Of course, it was always hardest during the night, when the darkness stole away any signs of hope.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
To remember everything is a form of madness.
~ Brian Friel
A French general, Pierre Bosquet, famously remarked, "It is magnificent, but it is not war: it is madness.
~ Brian M. Fagan
Dude, I've known people who pretend to be crazy, but you, my friend, are the real deal.
~ Brian Yansky
Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?
~ Brom
If not so tragic, it would be laughable. Both sides os blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see that they were all fighting for the same thing- for the men to leave this island. Insanity!
~ Brom
Sometimes, insanity is not a tragedy. Sometimes, it's a strategy for survival. Sometimes ... it's a triumph.
~ bujold lois mcmaster ii
for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
~ Herman Melville
Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules.
~ Herman Melville
Hay una sabiduría que es dolor; pero hay un dolor que es locura.
~ Herman Melville
man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
~ Herman Melville
I am madness maddened! That wild
~ Herman Melville
Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!
~ Hunter S. Thompson