Quotes About Insanity

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

Anger is a short madness.

The most remarkable thing I have observed since I came abroad, is, that there are no people so obviously mad as the English.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

Politics doesn't require talent, intelligence, or good looks. Truly, someone like Donald Rumsfeld, a mediocre government functionary with no discernible talent, intelligence, or charm, is a greater international celebrity than Mick Jagger. Rumsfeld, despite being a has-been, is known in every corner of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa for his insanity and arrogance, while Jagger is admired by a mere couple hundred million music enthusiasts, huddled mostly in the First World.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

Nuclear and Hydrogen Bomb experiments were beyond their comprehension. They could not figure out why a person is incarcerated in a mental asylum when he turns mad and why when a nation turns mad, we start calling it a Power

To be insane is to be truly alive.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

We're Irish, Jake, which means heredity carries us halfway to madness smack out of the womb.

I think insanity runs in the family. Hell, it practically gallops.

It is difficult to confront madness, because insanity is a stranger to reason and any reasonable response would be insane.

I've been insane from a very early age.

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Love is a form of madness, isn't it?

Clearly there was no headway to be made in an argument when one's opponent was insane.

The stars are honest and sensible. But humanity is insane !

Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen

The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments.

We of the craft (poets) are all crazy.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

That this woman talking to him had large, melting brown eyes and long brown hair the color of a doe's, on a face meant for an artist's canvas, all attached to a nifty little compact body that could tempt the gods meant nothing. She was insane.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher