Quotes About Insanity

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Anger is temporary insanity.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Insanity is beautiful, I'm absolutely glad to be crazy.

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minuet of it.

Sometimes following your heart means losing your mind.

I like being insane, because I do not want to be sane like everyone else.

While I'm apologizing why dont I just say to the whole car how truly sorry I am for being such an insane control freak all the time.

Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.

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

Author Mark Twain (1835–1910) had this take on riddles (both of the puzzling and the philosophical variety): "Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written language, is a proof of insanity, so insanity diagnosed in a sonata seemed to him as mysterious a thing as the insanity of a dog or a horse, although instances may be observed of these.

Madness is a distrust of reason.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, kid.

You're insane! Call me HAL and make me sing 'Daisy, Daisy'.

But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.

First of all, accept that something is wrong with you. It's a good start. Something has always been wrong with me, too. We're in a club of sorts, the lunatic fringe who are proud to band together. There's a joyous road to ruin out there, and if you let me be your garbage guru, I'll teach you how to succeed in insanity and take control of your low self-esteem. Personality disorders are a terrible thing to waste.

I think everybody's nuts.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

My children are the source of my strength, frustration, happiness, insanity, sanity, irritability. They are the definition of unconditional love.