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Quotes About Insanity

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. —ARISTOTLE
~ Mark Rubinstein
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
~ Nathanael Emmons
Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.
~ Dave Barry
TLC should stand for Toddlers, Lunatics, and Cake.
~ Natasha Leggero
Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.
~ Joseph Murphy
My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!
~ Alex Hirsch
Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.
~ Jim Carrey
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.
~ Mark Twain
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
~ Spike Milligan
Love brings joy, it brings peace. It brings sadness and grief. It brings hope, it brings pain, it drives people insane. It brings smiles, it brings tears, it helps overcome fears. It's part of you, part of me, part of us, cause love is key.
~ Unknown
The insanity of our rulers also calls down punishments upon us which we have merited for a long time so that our princes become insane and mad and let the Turk come into the land.
~ Martin Luther
The present facts are that the world is insane and rages when we confess Christ and believe in Him.
~ Martin Luther
Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679
~ Martina Cole
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. —Aristotle
~ Marty Neumeier
Hello, madness, my old friend. *
~ Unknown
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
~ Aleister Crowley
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
~ Unknown
Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Love is merely madness...
~ William Shakespeare
Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back into sanity.
~ Unknown
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
~ Masashi Kishimoto