Quotes About Insanity

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.

If I lose my mind again and I tell you that I'm thinking of getting married, I want you to put me in a straight jacket and take me to the beach at high tide.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together, we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

For you to have success, you – the person that's reading this right now – for you to have success, you have to be insane.

Who says I'm insane? Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

There was a time, before I wound up here, when I would have thought all this was funny. When I was a member of the world, and not a member of "the club." The world just loves to laugh at the absurdity of insanity. I

Today I felt pass over me / A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

In all climes, under every sun, Death admires you At your antics, ridiculous Humanity, And frequently, like you, scenting herself with myrrh, Mingles her irony with your insanity!