Quotes About Insanity

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.

A good friend is a connection to life- a tie to the past,a road to the future,the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

You wanted to believe that the sniper had a reason. That he wasn't just a broken guy who'd been abused by his uncle or whatever. Wanting to believe that there's a logic behind insanity.

I see the method in your madness, but there's too much madness in your method.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

This must be madness!

If you weren't in love and therefore insane I should punch your head, my boy.

I'm going insane. That's the only explanation for any of this. I'm going insane and the men in white coats will be showing up at any moment to tell me this has all been a psychotic delusion. They'll take me away and lock me up, and I'll be free to drool in the corner of my padded cell for the rest of my life without a care in the world. " "But then you'd never see me again," Caleb reminded her with a wink. "Really? Can I get that in writing?

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!

Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.

Anger is a short madness.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

You humans are crazy.

Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity... Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.

I only hope you are never tempted to venture into the library's Forbidden, Unspeakably Dangerous, Never-To-Be-Checked-Out-By-Anyone Section to peruse our secret copy of that most shocking and insanity-inducing of ancient tomes, typeset at a point-size convenient to those with impaired vision—the Large-Print Necronomicon!

He shows, however accidentally, that the devices and conventions we have learned to respond to do not necessarily solve or even do anything. More than any artist I can think of, Wiseau proves Northrop Frye's belief that all conventions are, at heart, insane.