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Quotes About Insanity

Despite the fact that a Supreme Court Justice can be impeached for treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, apparently being delusional doesn't make the cut. Maybe the problem is that 58% of Americans also believe in the devil. I guess it's tough to recognize insanity when you're living in the asylum. But
~ Ian Gurvitz
When you keep people from doing things they are destined to do, they go crazy.
~ Ilona Andrews
I finally understood why he was called Mad Rogan. It wasn't because he was insane. It was because he drove you nuts with sheer frustration.
~ Ilona Andrews
Planned Parenthood is being mentioned by the Republican Party more than ISIS. I think Trump is insane. I don't think you could have a normal conversation or even convince him. I think the ego is just about Trump. It's not about the issues at all.
~ Marilyn Minter
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
~ Aldous Huxley
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
~ Noam Chomsky
Is that all we mortals are? The victims of tortured irony to amuse an insane murder of gods?' 'A murder of crows, a murder of gods—I like that, lass. As for tortured irony, more like exquisite irony.
~ Steven Erikson
And what is that true sense? Why, it is the insanity of belief. And now you make us believe. With you. In you. And in your madness, which you so insist upon sharing. You taste bitter, human. You taste of your world.
~ Steven Erikson
The cellist confuses her. She doesn't know what he hopes to achieve with his playing. He can't believe he will stop the war. He can't believe he will save lives. Perhaps he has gone insane,
~ Steven Galloway
Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.
~ Steven Millhauser
Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.
~ Steven Wright
I'm actually writing a short story about a photographer who went completely insane trying to take a close up photo of the horizon.
~ Steven Wright
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
~ Sting
debo reconocer que algo en la línea de "he sentido pasar sobre mí el viento del ala de la locura" de Baudelaire se acerca bastante a lo que tengo en mente
~ Sue Kaufman
Azhrarn the Beautiful, " said Chuz lovingly, "it is your beautiful madness I have come to see.
~ Tanith Lee, Delusion's Master
Love is a mental madness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Maybe I was crazy about you. Maybe I was just crazy.
~ samin
Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.
~ Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.
~ Leah Raeder, Cam Girl
But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.
~ Chelsey Philpot
When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.
~ Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem
You're absolutely insane, that much I'm certain of, but it's one of the many things I love about you.
~ Ashley Beale, Illusion
As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.
~ Milton Rokeach
There is method to her madness!
~ Nancy Springer