Quotes about insanity

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.

We all disapprove of prostitution but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness but what is national sanity?

A madman overcomes it by adapting to his surroundings. You can’t give up. Why die? There is always another mission it’s the missions that keep you alive.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines if that isn't insanity than what is?

One man's insanity is another man's genius someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

I put my clothing into the refrigerator and the foods into my wardrobe am I in love?

Vanity breeds insanity humility leads to utility.

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.

Parent may hinder their children's marriage but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone. If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the dream of never dying or of traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonabl

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.

Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything other than nothing. They decided to give a name to nothingness, and thereby the made it become something. Like you… God, who is nothing, can no longer be nothing since he is God. You could be a god for men. They need to give a body to nothingness so that nothingness can be seen and touched-at least with the imagination.

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

We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

And I do. I do wonder, I think about it all the time. What it would be like to kill myself. Because I never really know, I still can't tell the difference, I'm never quite certain whether or not I'm actually alive. I sit here every single day. Run, I said to myself. Run until your lungs collapse, until the wind whips and snaps at your tattered clothes, until you're a blur that blends into the background. Run, Juliette, run faster, run until your bones break and your shins split and your muscles

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.Or insanity.

Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

Insatiable is my desire for you, Insane is my love you,Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for you,Wildest are my imaginations for you, Intense is my passion for you,Soul is my offering for you, Commitment is my promise to you,

The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.And only the phoenix lives forever.

I am insane, does that surprise you? Ha! I think my mind is crumbling, just like crackers. If I had written five minutes earlier I would have wept, if I had written ten minutes earlier I would have told you to leave me alone, if I wait any longer I won’t write at all.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.

Did god make man too perfect,So that a piece has to be removedthrough circumcision?

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity,i say i'd go insane if i stop.

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

FRUITS AND NUTSKeep jumping around them like monkeys.The clones,Commercialized zombies,And the TV junkies.Keep throwing berries,Twigs,And nuts at them.Until they wake upTo see what's up And figure out whyWe're laughing at 'em.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Every man is insane, however only a few actually have true insanity.

Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

(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

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person's upbringing and diag

Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

War is nothing more than organized insanity. That's why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don't, we won't live to tell about it.

There were no weapons of mass destruction. And we bombed them anyway.And, by the way he's destroyed the economy. He's squandered something in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars. It seems impossible to Tyler that that might not matter. It drives him insane.

What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.

What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?

When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.

One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arrested. It was completely crazy. But it seemed like the only way at the time.

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help their government remain the world's superpower. All the scientists who worked in and for Germany in the 1930s lived to regret that they directly helped a sociopath like Hitler harm millions of people. Let us not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

Love is a kind of insanity.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.