Quotes About Insanity

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!

The definition of insanity is conservatives voting Republican over and over again and expecting different results.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results means you're either insane or are making a New Year's resolution.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

Eve felt the shuttle dive, simply closed her eyes. Nothing made sense about being thousands of feet over an ocean. It was insanity. The human race was just bat-shit crazy.

Staring down at the churning crowd from his second-floor office, he watched them through the kind of one-way glass that psychologists used to monitor the interviews of insane people. And this made sense. The men and women below, stimulated and stimulating each other, were not on the normal bandwidth, and that was why they came to his establishment.

Craziness, indeed. And

No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are happy, O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of happy nuts. (p. 200)

and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

Apparently Dean had been quiet for a few months; now the angel had arrived and he was going mad again.

Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

France's Charles VI was subject to fits of insanity and unable to rule.

I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.