Quotes About Insanity

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

Reality is symbolicof an unseen insanity

You have to be insane enough to live an insanely beautiful life.

They may think I'm insane because I left my wonderful job. I may think they are insane because they don't know the value of life.

When the world came to, it came, not to its senses, but to its madness.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

I do have a reason for my insanity. I fear regret.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Seneca's essay "On Anger." Anger, says Seneca, is "brief insanity," and the damage done by anger is enormous: "No plague has cost the human race more." Because of anger, he says, we see all around us people being killed, poisoned, and sued; we see cities and nations ruined.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." (Euripides)

Are you insane?" "Probably, yes," she said. "Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

You're just a crazy murderer who's confused himself with a god.... nothing more, nothing less.