Quotes About Insanity

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

One of my former teachers repeatedly reminded us that an imbalance in theology was the same as doctrinal insanity.

It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam.

have you taken leave of your senses

Pardon my sanity... in a world insane...

His madness foiled his reason...

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

I don't suffer from insanity — I enjoy every minute of it.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if any thing is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

There is a Pleasure sure In being mad, which none but Mad-men know! Let me indulge it, let me gaze for ever!

Why, no one is sane, straight along, year in & year out, & we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, & express themselves in various forms — fortunately harmless forms as a rule — but in whatever form they occur an immense upheaval of feeling can at any time topple us distinctly over the sanity-line for a little while...

Innocence is a kind of insanity

That bastard crazy.

Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.

A citizen who spiralled down into insanity could spend teratau in a state of confusion and pain, with a mind too damaged to authorise help, or even to choose extinction. That was the price of autonomy: an inalienable right to madness and suffering, inseparable from the right to solitude and peace.

It was the kind of behavior that could only occur when people had been trapped for thousands of years, staring at the same sights, fetishizing everything around them, spiraling down toward the full-blown insanity of religion. You didn't need gates and barbed wire to make a prison. Familiarity could pin you to the ground, far more efficiently.

Humor is reason gone mad.

None of us understand the infinite universe. Most people who start thinking about it, get overwhelmed, shrug their shoulders, and turn their attention back to something mundane, like drinking beer or watching TV. Only a few great minds have ever actually contemplated the nature of the universe. Fewer still have done it without going insane.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

Knowing was the worst part. Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person—it only adds the burden of panic.

We are all insane to one degree or another, and the most functional of us merely hides it the best.