Quotes About Insanity

Not all crazy people are brilliant, but almost all brilliant people are crazy.

Edition to edition, the symptoms change. Sane people are insane by a new standard. People who used to be called insane are the picture of perfect mental health.

It had been in that moment that he had realized the insanity of war, the futile gesture that in time became all but meaningless, the unreasoning rage that must be nursed long beyond the memory of the incident that had caused the rage, the sheer illogic that one man, by death of misery, might prove a right or uphold a principle.

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

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. Is that a famous saying? Maybe if I say it often enough.

Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.

Gli parve che l'unica soluzione potesse essere la follia, nessuna speranza se non la perdita della speranza.

I want an explanation!" "I'll give you one," Maxine said: "You're crazy.

A tired man is already in the grip of death and insanity ... A sane man is a man who is fully awake. As he grows tired, he loses his ability to rise above dreams and delusions, and life becomes steadily more chaotic.

What if the 'brutal thunderclap of halt' takes the form of the choice, Dishonesty or insanity?

In the scales of the gigantic balance-pan in Nijinsky's brain, the world's misery bulked heavy on one side. But the other? First, there was dancing, the rhythmic, violent Dionysian upsurge of the vital energies; while he could dance regularly, every day, and restore contact with the vital, instinctive parts of his own being, Nijinsky could not go insane. Sanity lay in creation.

By this time I was in a state of excitement bordering on insanity; but I also had the cunning of the insane.

Si me llevan a la muerte, recuerden, cuando lo hagan, que sólo un arrebato de locura podría darme la fuerza bruta para comportarme como una bestia.

Some of them are detached observers, like glass surfaces and still pools; others, such as coats in store windows, are prejudiced witnesses, lynchers at heart; others, again (running, water, storms), are hysterical to the point of insanity, have a distorted opinion of him, and grotesquely misinterpret his actions.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

Crazy? try ceiling-licking, rabies-frothing, dish-ran-away-with-the-spoon-in-fucking-sane." --Thanatos

He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague.

Who'd have thought your screwball brother could have gone so serial-killer fucktwat insane?

Every madman thinks all other men mad.

She is ancientness. She has lived forever. It has driven her insane.

There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains.

That chick is certifiably out of her fucking tree. -Isaac

been used in India to treat fever, vomiting, snakebite, insomnia, and insanity for thousands of years, reserpine was introduced in the United States at around the same time as Thorazine, but while Thorazine was used clinically, reserpine was used more experimentally.

However, very little thought, or for that matter, information, is given as to how Allah veils His Truths. One way that the Truth is veiled is through the veil of: the fear of appearing or becoming insane or "crazy." Other veils include: becoming or appearing a fool, the veil of obviousness, the veil of shame, the veil of no longer being concerned with "stations" on the path, the veil of behaving contrary to Shariah, the veil of heresy, and the veil of leaving the Path.