Quotes About Insanity

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. That night I wrote in my journal: "Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new colors. Someone—was it van Gogh?—said that orange is the color of insanity. Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.

This always shocked me like a momentary glare of insanity.

Insanity is hereditary—you get it from your kids. ~Sam Levenson

For a number of years, a serial killer roamed Columbia, killing victim after victim. After the body count had reached 300, the police had just about enough clues to identify the perpetrator, Pedro Lopez, and thankfully caught him. At his trial he pleaded insanity, and was sent to a mental asylum. Just four years later, doctors there declared Lopez sane and released him. His current whereabouts are unknown.

A raving loony. She must be," Billy

Barbee had wondered about insanity, sometimes with a brooding dread - for his own father, whom he scarcely remembered, had died in the forbidding stone pile of the state asylum. He had vaguely supposed that a mental breakdown must be somehow strange and thrilling, with an exciting conflict of horrible depression and wild elation. But perhaps it was more often like this, just a baffled apathetic retreat from problems grown too difficult to solve.

And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that someone was trying to destroy you, to suck out your guts, insanity was a goodly metaphysics.

You don't appreciate the fact that madmen are very lucky.

It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

I must find Ecstasy in this Insanity Freedom from their Slavery The Truth in their Lies Life in their Death Beauty in their Homicidal Genocide Peace in the War Whore's evil orgy of Death and Negation Love amongst the Ruins Pleasure in my own Pain.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

Religion is induced insanity.

If insanity is contagious, and it is, so is sanity. Sanity is more contagious than insanity. It's just that there aren't enough carriers. Become a source of infectious sanity.

There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know -John Dryden

But, Lucien, he was not insane, and there's no way I can find some bogus psychiatrist to say he was. He planned it meticulously, every detail.

The M'Naghten Rule states: To establish a defense on the ground of insanity it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.

You've lost your mind. -Yes, and it's so liberating.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

Recurrent descent into insanity is not a wholly attractive feature of capitalism.

Recurrent speculative insanity and the associated financial deprivation and larger devastation are, i am persuaded, inherent in the system. Perhaps it is better that this be recognized and accepted.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.