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Quotes About Insanity

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?
~ Hiroko Sakai
It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Even coming to Paris had been a lovely gesture, but it was still wild and impulsive, and did not respect what she'd asked him, to stay away from her, and forget the moment of insanity they had indulged in London.
~ Danielle Steel
madman and a monster.
~ Danielle Steel
Men who fall in love with her do so at their own risk and peril. They usually know it, or suspect it, but they can't resist the gamble. She brings them to the edge of insanity, which is always a dangerous thing. If any man ever makes you feel crazy and
~ Danielle Steel
He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.
~ Darren Shan
Maybe the mad don't need to sleep. Maybe their insanity is all they require to sustain them.
~ Darren Shan
Los indicios de chifladura son bien sencillos de encontrar, y cuanto más ahondamos en nosotros mismos, más salen a relucir.
~ Dashiell Hammett
The Circle had 90 percent of the search market. Eighty-eight percent of the free-mail market, 92 percent of text servicing. That was, in her perspective, a simple testament to their making and delivering the best product. It seemed insane to punish the company for its efficiency, for its attention to detail. For succeeding.
~ Dave Eggers
Being young is like being mad. Maybe just being human, at any age, is a bit like being mad. But Maybe the best thing that we do, and the best thing that we are, come from madness.
~ David Almond
I had to admit, standing there, that sometimes you just gotta admire the passion of the truly insane -- a passion that bulls right past all sense or reason.
~ David Brin
In contrast, if you are harboring the deep fear that you are going insane and are experiencing episodes of panic in which you sense you are losing control or going over the deep end, it is a near certainty that you are not. These are typical symptoms of ordinary anxiety, a much less serious disorder.
~ David D. Burns
The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.
~ David Foster Wallace
Naturally, the significant results that legitimize a mathematical theory take time to derive, and then even more time to be fully accepted, and of course throughout this time the Insanity-v.-Genius question remains undecided, probably even for the mathematician himself, so that he's developing his theory and cooking his proofs under conditions of enormous personal stress and doubt, and sometimes isn't even vindicated in his own lifetime, etc.
~ David Foster Wallace
Isidor thought for a moment he had gone mad, and that he wished his valet to cut his throat.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
~ William Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
~ William Shakespeare
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Malvolio: Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Feste: But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.
~ William Shakespeare
O! That way madness lies.
~ William Shakespeare
Why, this is very midsummer madness.
~ William Shakespeare
Such stuff as madmen tongue.
~ William Shakespeare
Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat—88
~ Winston S. Churchill