Quotes About Insanity

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)

you have to accept this reality as the madhouse walls bulge break and the terrified insane flood our ugly streets. you have to accept terrible reality.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

La inmensa mayoría de la gente estaba loca. Y los que no estaban locos estaban furiosos. Y los que no estaban locos ni furiosos eran idiotas. No tenía escapatoria.

I don't think I was insane but many of the insane think that but i think now if anything saved me it was the avoidance of the crowd

Bir suru farkli yolu vardi delirmenin.

Examinar la propia mente es lo peor que puede hacer un loco.

Anything goes now, apparently," Fiedel told me. "The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

It's insane, but no more insane than Japan shutting down its entire nuclear reactor fleet in the middle of a heat wave because an extreme tsunami washed over one plant, or the USA invading a noninvolved Middle Eastern nation because a gang of crazies from somewhere else knocked down two skyscrapers. In a sufficiently large crisis, sane and measured responses go out the window.

They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university? Evidently not

They're nuts. Completely insane! I don't get this gambling thing. Didn't these people study statistics at university?

The Internet is a global lavatory wall, a Rabelaisian mixture of truth, lies, insanity and humour.

Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

The insanity defense is not merciful. Involuntary mental hospitalization is not a treatment. Both are coercive methods of social control. Both rest on attributing an absence of mens rea to the actor. Both result in the protected person's being deprived of liberty. Both function as tactical weapons in psychiatry's war on dignity, liberty, and responsibility.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.

Maybe it's a crackpot theory, but in the aftermath of my sickness, I've often wondered if what we call insanity might be a biological response to mankind's consciousness of its own mortality, a way of unknowing what we know, a defense against the specter of nothingness and foreverness and intolerable finality.

I think it's more likely that Master C'baoth is insane." It was possibly the first time Luke

Maybe he wasn't mad, maybe he was just crazy..

The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

GUIL: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder then a man talking nonsense not to himself. ROS: Or just as mad. GUIL: Or just as mad. ROS: And he does both. GUIL: So there you are. ROS: Stark raving sane.