Quotes About Insanity

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE, German critic and poet

Lake Insanity lay broad and strange before them, a still reflecting pool for the frightened, confused moon.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

One of the Georges, said Psmith, I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory. However, there you are. I've given you the main idea of the thing; and a German doctor says that early rising causes insanity.

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

Life in the country, with its lack of intellectual stimulus, has caused his natural feebleness of mind to reach a stage which borders closely on insanity.

Hay un cierto placer en la locura, que solo el loco conoce.

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

My pre-Yamacraw theory of teaching held several sacred tenets, among these being that the teacher must always maintain an air of insanity, or of eccentricity out of control, if he is to catch and hold the attention of his students. The teacher must always be on the attack, looking for new ideas, changing worn-out tactics, and never, ever falling into patterns that lead to student ennui.

Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity.

Some authorities declare that people may actually go insane in order to find, in the dreamland of insanity, the feeling of importance that has been denied them in the harsh world of reality.

But he did say that many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality. Then he told me this story:

Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

Madness breeds madness.

In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.

Sofi pogleda Langdona, ne znajuci da li se vratila kroz vreme ili je krocila u ludnicu

Newton's third life childrearing colin for every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy. - Edmond Kirsch

What else do you know of la purga?" Langdon hesitated. What else do I know? That this whole situation is insanity, that's what I know! "After the brandings, the scientists were murdered, and their bodies were dropped in public locations around Rome as a warning to other scientists not to join the Illuminati.

What's this lunatic talking about!?

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

"It's an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends."

In a world of lunacy, Violence, stupidity, greed…it is a good life.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.