Quotes About Insanity

Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of the great desert tracts in his consciousness.

She felt weak and utterly forlorn. She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.

Well, get used to it, the whole world is nuts.

That's often the case, of course—that creation and madness begin to dance with each other.

That's often the case, of course—that creation and madness begin to dance with each other." "Like Van Gogh.

A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby.

I'm clearly insane. I'm threatening your life with a toothbrush

Until you transcend the ego, you can do nothing but add to the insanity of the world.

Dream not...of having tasted all the grandeur & wildness of Fancy, till you have gone mad.

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.

Are you sure twice two are four? Not at all. A certain percentage of the human race are insane and subject to illusions. It may be you are one of them, and that your idea that twice two is four is a lunatic notion, and your seeming recollection that other people think so, the baseless fabric of a vision.

They wheeled out the ash blonde who believes herself already dead into the spike-fenced garden of the hospital for the insane. Her name was Amy or Ann, but she didn't answer to either one. She kept her eyes tightly shut. [...] Some of it was told to me by a shivering young man who insisted that it's been raining for years, even indoors. "Coming down real hard," he said.

we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule, Nietzsche had said.

Something up there is madder than a baboon with its ass on fire.

Deliberation is necessary, unless we wish to play a fool's part. No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life, with its eyes shut, is a kind of wild insanity. A drifting life, with its eyes open, is a kind of mild idiocy.

The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.

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

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.