Quotes About Insanity

Of course I've gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

A society which demands we be normal even as it drives us insane.

Philip K. Dick wrote that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

It is said that insanity is a logical response to an insane world. Maybe depression is in part simply a response to a life we don't really understand.

At the sub-atomic level, everything is complex. But you do not live at the sub-atomic level. You have the right to simplify. If you don't, you will go insane.

Since sane people find the insane impenetrable and irreducible, they consider themselves the sole owners of rationality.

Only insane people like chocolate ice-cream.

But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not?

The definition of insanity is decreed far too often by individuals with no proof they themselves are sane.

Desperation is the author of crazy-ass exits.

Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

Money could buy her slippers. Only crazy would get her a man.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

I have spoken in tongues of fire. I have torn whole towns in two for love. I have courted insanity, crouching in the gap between what this moment feels like (smoldering fire fanned into the most logical flames) and how it looks to other people (the psychotic break of spontaneous combustion). I can feel the sensation of being called CRAZY when you feel WOUNDED and DESPERATE.

Havia duas maneiras de partir: uma era ir embora, outra era enlouquecer.

Unos dicen que el peso la ha vuelto loca. Yo tengo fe en su demencia. Solo las pequeñas locuras pueden salvarnos de la gran locura.

some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Porphyria's lover was mad, of course, but what lover is completely sane?

The New Right is of the fringe (and I say that as an anarchist), and the fringe is where both innovation and insanity lay.

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford, makes the extremely strong statement: "It's boggling that the legal system's gold standard for an insanity defense—M'Naghten—is based on 166-year-old science. Our growing knowledge about the brain makes notions of volition, culpability, and, ultimately, the very premise of a criminal justice system, deeply suspect.

On Being Sane in Insane Places

We were not created to live independently of Him; that brings insanity. It is only in humble dependence upon the Creator that mind and emotions enter into soundness and trustworthiness. Being