Quotes about insane

Monica Crowley -

When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane.

Stephen King - Lisey's Story

For a moment the dark and fearsomely sad thoughts which inhabit her mind grow even sadder and darker Lisey thinks they will either kill her or drive her insane.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Thinking without acting makes you a coward. Acting without thinking makes you insane. You need both the thoughts and actions they never walk alone!

Mark Twain -

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.

Munia Khan -

Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

Kelli Jae Baeli - Too Much World

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

You baffle me, addle me, drive me insane. You muddle, befuddle, and rattle my brain. My senses are mad, Skewed judgment to blame.You drive me half stark-raving bonkers!(But the truly crazy thing is how I love it.)

E.A. Bucchianeri - Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

... insanity is never reasonable.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Dan Slott - Arkham Asylum: Living Hell

I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome

Douglas Self -

Sleepless nights, infinite random thoughts, Remembering those moments, he had much to say, an urge to talk to someone, to be cared, to be loved, to be understood !! She was gone by now, And he was lost !! There it was, A white paper note, a pen, and the dark clouds forcing him to spill out !! Yes Words did most of talking, the unsaid words took the paper form .. Strange it was, the way Love was lost somewhere in the Library stacks !!

Mad-D -

Yes I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated.

Douglas Self -

She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!Then SHewent and left him restlessly numb. He was herpainkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.

Deyth Banger -

If books/stories and movies are going to be judge as for the personality of people so... Doctor Sleep and Nightmares and Dreamscapes... should make Stephen King the world top1 insane person, ever lived in the world.

Holly Black - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

Roberto Bolaño - 2666

I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week."Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself."Really I don't," he said to himself. And that was as eloquent as he could be.

Paul Hoffman - The Last Four Things

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.

Elvis Costello -

He's such a dragHe's not insaneIt's just that everybodyHas to feel his pain.

Charles Bukowski - Women

She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.

Paulo Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

Mark Vonnegut - The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

There was a time, when we were illiterate, insane and inhuman, and we needed religion to control the masses for the good or evil, but now we are in the time of the technological advancement, we are educated and we must let go off religion.

Ally Carter - Out of Time

There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.

Mark Vonnegut - The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

K. D. Green -

I’m a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.

Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic

I just managed to go around with one of the Great Spells in my head for years without going insane, didn't I?' He considered the last question form all angles.'Yes, you did,' he reassured himself. 'You didn't start talking to trees, even when trees started talking to you.

Ruth Frances Long - The Treachery of Beautiful Things

She was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.

Justina Ireland - Promise of Shadows

Why are all pretty boys insane?

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza -

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games

Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

Larry Niven -

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Anthony Liccione -

The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.

Anne Lamott - Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Vicki Lawrence -

You are really nuts, you know it? One a these days they're gonna come over and just lock you up! You aren't playing with a full deck, Eunice. I think somebody blew your pilot light out. There's more. You know what? You got splinters in the windmill of your mind. You're playin hockey with a warped puck! I think you dine sprung a leak in your dingey....

Anthony T. Hincks -

Being crazy lets me do some pretty insane things.

Samantha Rodman - Effective Communication Techniques for Your Changing Fami

invalidation is crazy-making, and it is also at the root of gaslighting, where victims' feelings are purposely denied or manipulated in order to make them question their sanity.

Anthony T. Hncks -

I might be crazy, but at least I'm not insane.

Deyth Banger -

People are damn crazy and insane.(Lie To Me Season 2 episode 1)

Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind

Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head."Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.

Paul Colaianni - How to Deal with Irrational People: What to do When Common Sense Fails and "Crazy" Behavior Prevails

The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally.

Sarah E. Olson - Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.

Derek Landy - The Dying of the Light

Have to be honest with you Darquesse, I cannot feel that. That must be one of your special abilities, because to me, it looks like you just killed a whole bunch of people for no reason.""Oh," said Darquesse. "That's so sad

Shannon L. Alder -

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

We all act crazy when we fall in love, stupid when we miss them, and insane when we lose them.

Mehmet Ali Ağca -

I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every human being will die. I am not God, I am not son of God, I am Christ eternal.

Josh Stern - And That’s Why I’m Single

The only difference between me and a madman is that he has the certification

Eminem -

I act like shit don’t phase me inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive

Lewis Carroll -

am i insane" asked alice"yes, but all the best people are" replied her father

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Onyx

But I'm insane. You're crazy. Maybe that's why, We can just make crazy together.

Tamjid Ahmed -

Sometimes, you have to go Insane, to Outsane, the Sane. You know what i'm Sanin?

Cartoon Network -

Sometimes, you have to go Insane, to Outsane, the Sane. You know what i'm Sayin?

Ashley Beale - Illusion

You're absolutely insane, that much I'm certain of, but it's one of the many things I love about you.

Paulo Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

Jalaluddin Rumi - The Essential Rumi

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Katie Kacvinsky - Awaken

Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.

Thomm Quackenbush - #2)

If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.

Carolina De Robertis - Perla

I wondered whether I had gone insane. If so, I thought, then this is what it feels like; I would never have guessed the world would still appear so sharp and vivid, the streets the same, the clouds the same, nothing different except your mind has come unhinged, its cogs whirling loose and wild and hazardous.

Gena Showalter - The Harder You Fall

If I died, I’d expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I’d haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I’d haunt the girl.

Ilona Mialik -

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

Thomas Story Kirkbride -

There is no reason why an individual, who has the misfortune to become insane, should, on that account, be deprived of any comfort or even luxury...

Deyth Banger -

If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check out the killing... That's insane!

Caitlín R. Kiernan - The Drowning Girl

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

Emilie Autumn - The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

Anne Lamott - Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness

Michael Bassey Johnson - Master of Maxims

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

Rita Stradling - The Deception Dance

Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final

James Louis Petigru -

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

Stephen King - It

And there he would either be mercifully annihilated or live forever, insane and yet conscious inside It's homicidal endless formless hungry being.

Sebastian Faulks - Engleby

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

Carl Henegan - Darkness Left Undone

Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.

Tori Spelling - sTORI Telling

Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

Alessandra Hazard - Straight Boy

There’s no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can’t—and shouldn’t—force yourself to want something ‘normal’ and stop wanting what you truly want. It’s a sure way to make your life miserable.

Insane Clown Posse -

We may paint our faces. We may fuck around. But pussy-ass bitches here wont be found. My homies stand behind me all the way. My true family and forever we'll stay. Don't fuck with me, cause they got my back. Where do your friends go, when they know you can't hack? Do they stay and help? Fuck no, they run! Back to their mommies while we have our fun. My juggalo family, we don't fuck around. So tell me this now, are you down with the clown?

Renee Fredrickson - Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse

In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.

Alessandra Torre - The Girl in 6E

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski - Psychic Skin Volume 2

The severing of his limbs and subsequent cauterizing of the wounds was not the most pleasurable part, no." His mad grin stretched, it seemed, from ear to ear.

Wilhelm Reich - Little Man!

I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t like. And you feel yourself as the ‘homo normalis’. You have locked up crazy people, and the normal people manage this world. Who then is to blame for all the misery? Not you, of course, you only do your duty, and who are you to have an opinion of your own? I know, you don’t have to repeat it. It isn’t you that matters, Little Man. But when I think of your newborn children, of how you torture them i

Eve N. Adams - A Shattered Soul

Another of the difficulties of having DID is the denial. DID is a disorder of denial. It has to be because if the original person knew about the alters and felt their pain, they would either go crazy and be hospitalized permanently, or would die.

Ridhdhesh Jivawala -

you said " you were insane", while all you did was being sane..!!

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual.

Bob Beckel -

If we have intelligence on the location of terrorist training centers, it is insane not to act.

Kristin Davis -

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

Erin O'Connor -

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

Anne Wojcicki -

The paternalism of the medical industry is insane.

Rosanna Arquette -

Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.

Benito Mussolini -

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Sylvia Plath -

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Aisha Tyler -

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

Hunter S. Thompson -

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Nate Ruess -

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

H. L. Mencken -

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Gillian Jacobs -

There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

Shia LaBeouf -

Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.

Edward P. Jones -

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

Robert Browning -

The rain set early in tonight,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And did its best to vex the lake:I listened with heart fit to break.When glided in Porphyria; straightShe shut the cold out and the storm,And kneeled and made the cheerless grateBlaze up and all the cottage warm;

Scott Westerfeld - Uglies

You're insane!" she shouted."Pretty cool, huh?""No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?""More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy."Well, kind of. But you suck!