Quotes About Insanity

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

They say there is a fine line between genius & insanity....so I picked it up & went fishing

Ever in the dullest existence there is a sheen either of Inspiration or of Madness

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core. My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.

One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane

The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Obviously, without question, she'd lost her mind.

You were worried about me. It was a brief moment of insanity. It's passed.

Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.