Quotes About Insanity

Geduld ist die Mutter der Wissenschaft, entgegnete sie. Und die Patin des Wahnsinns.

Julián me había dicho alguna vez que un relato es una carta que el autor se escribe a sí mismo para contarse cosas que de otro modo no podría averiguar. Hacía tiempo que Julián se preguntaba si había perdido la razón. ¿Sabe el loco que está loco?

Julián spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Have you thought about going insane? It would seem like a reasonable thing to do, given his circumstances. Did once. Got boring, so I snapped out of it.

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

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.

You said that I, who see more than you, am insane. I, who pushed the world so much further than you, am insane. I have dared more than you, I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust...you owe me awe.

You said that I, who see more than you, am insane. I, who pushed the world so much further than you, am insane. I have dared more than you, I have pressed my unique seal so much deeper in the earth, where it will last longer than your dust. Your life to mine is a slug track on stone. A thin silver mucus track in and out of the letters on my monument.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?

Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange? I thought it was cigarettes.

So to catch a madman, we have to think like a madman?" "I wouldn't advise it," Cassie said very quietly. "That abyss is darker and colder than you can even imagine.

People tend to distance themselves from the insane, as if to inquire is to request an invitation to the same dance.

Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?

What do you make of him?" I asked Elizabeth. "Apart from the fact he's clearly insane?" "What can he learn from Konrad's blood?" I said. "Except that he needs it in his body to live!" "There is something ghoulish about it." "He's like a vampyre

For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point of breaking out openly but whose views and behavior, for all their appearance of normality, are influenced by unconsciously morbid and perverse factors.

The things that come to light brutally in insanity remain hidden in the background in neurosis, but they continue to influence consciousness nonetheless. When, therefore, the analysis penetrates the background of conscious phenomena, it discovers the same archetypal figures that activate the deliriums of psychotics.

It is a fact that in eclipses of consciousness—in dreams, narcotic states and cases of insanity—there come to the surface psychic products or contents that show all the traits of primitive levels of psychic development.

Os homens são tão necessariamente loucos que não ser louco seria uma outra forma de loucura.

It is strange how oftentimes the air speaks. We are sane as long as we hear voices when there are none. We are insane when we hear nothing and worse we are deaf.

Terra has just one stone To mark her great insanity: Across her continents it reads: HERE LIES HUMANITY!