Top 100 Be Insane Quotes
#1. The last time anyone did anything wrong in this town, Hades's men found those responsible and dragged them back here in chains. You would have to be insane to actively want to piss that man off." "Insane or very sure of yourself," I said.
Steve McHugh
#2. It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.
Helen Reddy
#4. It was your brother. He must be insane."
"Not insane, dear." Sybilla, speaking gently, contradicted. "Not insane. But magnificently drunk, I fear.
Dorothy Dunnett
#5. Well, I might take a plane, I might take a train. How do you people live here? You must be insane. I'm leaving Sacramento. Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May.
Dwayne Johnson
#6. I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.
- Jake to Lydia
Lisa Kleypas
#7. It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#8. Right." He smiled bitterly. "Well, look around. Just look. Have you ever considered the possibility that God might be insane?
Robert McCammon
#9. You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.
Susan Moody
#10. You may wonder: how do I overcome the common 'Cute/Insane Conundrum,' as it occurs in men ... Yes, it's a fact - any man who seems cute, fabulous, and incredible to you will, of course, turn out to be insane.
Marilyn Suzanne Miller
#11. On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.
Robbie Williams
#12. If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?
Robert M. Pirsig
#13. It's refreshing to be insane. Just as it's liberating to be aware of it.
Jonathan Maberry
#14. Jace: 'I don't like keeping her in the dark.'
Sebastian: 'We'll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?'
Jace: 'Two weeks ago you were dead.'
Sebastian: 'Well, I wasn't suggesting twoweeks. That would be insane.
Cassandra Clare
#15. Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H.P. Lovecraft
#16. After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.
Clive Owen
#17. No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
#18. You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
Cecelia Ahern
#19. The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
Malcolm McDowell
#20. And those who were seen smiling without any reason were thought to be insane by those who could not feel the love that existed in the air!
Anamika Mishra
#21. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.
Larry Ellison
#22. Well, look around. Just look. Have you ever considered the possibility that God might be insane?" Tears
Robert McCammon
#23. Evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups,
Susan Cain
#24. Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
Bradley Denton
#25. That's because our parents pick out our shoes," said Patricia. "Just wait until we're grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
Charlie Jane Anders
#26. It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
John Waters
#27. The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi.
Yuval Noah Harari
#28. If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#29. Love is the reason to remain sane all life and yet it is an excuse to be insane in all the moments that make up a life.
Novoneel Chakraborty
#31. The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of insanity that soon he will be insane again and there is a world there more interesting than his own.
Norman Mailer
#32. I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.
Rayne Hall
#34. I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane.
Dylan O'Brien
#35. I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
Mary Roach
#36. To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
Ben Harper
#37. My thoughts shock me. There's a desperate heat in the pit of my stomach I wish I could ignore. There are butterflies in my chest I wish I could explain away. There's an ache in my core that I'm unwilling to name.
Beautiful.
He's so beautiful>.
I must be insane.
Tahereh Mafi
#38. You have to be insane enough to live an insanely beautiful life.
Debasish Mridha
#39. The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would be insane, unless you have a very developed mind to deal with the endless permutations of infinity simultaneously.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.
Geneen Roth
#41. You don't have to be "insane" to cut people up, no matter how fiendishly you do it. You just have to hate enough.
Bruce Robinson
#42. In this insane, chaotic world, you can only be insane and chaotic.
Edwin Hodge
#43. I get it the whole idea of willingly going to hell for someone. Living there insane if you have to because you'd rather be insane with them than endure life without them.
Karen Marie Moning
#44. A whore with a veil is mysterious. God's ways appear to be ... insane.
Joe Abercrombie
#45. It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser, though he has lost and I think that is the lesson of tragedy.
Alain De Botton
#46. I work out, and I try to stay active and fit so I can enjoy certain foods that I like to eat. I try to keep everything in moderation. I used to be insane about it.
Cameron Mathison
#47. Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.
Mark Helprin
#49. I don't like keeping her in the dark," Jace said.
"We'll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?"
Jace gave him a look. "Two weeks ago you were dead."
"Well, I wasn't suggesting two weeks," said Sebastian. "That would be insane.
Cassandra Clare
#50. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George Orwell
#51. You have to be insane before they will let you fly no more missions, but the fact that you want to fly no more missions is proof that you are not insane.
Joseph Heller
#52. Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.
Craig Ferguson
#53. It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#54. I was there that first night her called you. I've seen how he looked at you in pictures. Any bloke with a working prick would be insane not to like you.
Stephanie Perkins
#55. The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
Elon Musk
#56. Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
Terry Pratchett
#57. He would lose every game. And he still insisted on playing. I wondered at the futility of it. If it is the definition of insanity to repeat the same process and expect a different outcome, most of humanity must be insane.
Amie Kaufman
#58. It was all horribly ironic that she felt like she would need to be insane to believe the proof that she had never been crazy.
Wen Spencer
#60. 'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'
George Mikes
#61. It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.
Sean Combs
#62. Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
Adam Pally
#63. If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.
Dave Mustaine
#64. The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.
Doris Lessing
#65. Eight? Was it really eight? Adrenaline or not, this was an insane time to be up. That was humanity's problem right there. They were brain damaged from the early sun.
Kim Harrison
#66. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
#67. Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
Marie Rutkoski
#68. I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.
Norman Finkelstein
#69. Children are all criminally insane, and must be destroyed!
Jhonen Vasquez
#70. Valiant! The word mocked me, for I knew myself to be anything but valiant. What I had done, I had done in a fit of insane bitterness, not with cool courage, not with brave quick thinking, not with presence of mind - but with absence of it.
Kenneth Roberts
#71. Oh my god, you really are insane." "Probably," he said with a shrug, "but don't worry I doubt it's hereditary so the baby should be fine.
R.L. Mathewson
#72. She is INSANE," I scream, standing in the middle of Marshall's living room.
"Of course, she's insane. That would be your genealogy by the way.
Addison Moore
#73. The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.
Chris Hedges
#74. I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.
Jennifer Lynch
#75. Together we gazed out over corkscrew switchbacks cut through a barren, rocky landscape stretching to the horizon. It was simultaneously awesome and insane to be in this spot as a family, though, for a flicker of an instant, the lone explorer in me longed to be out there alone with just a 4x4.
Alan Paul
#76. Clearly there was no headway to be made in an argument when one's opponent was insane.
Lisa Kleypas
#77. Knew myself to be quite sane. I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed
Patrick Rothfuss
#78. More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a difficulty which really ignores the possibility of having a sensible reader.
Billy Collins
#79. Don't be afraid to do the most insane thing. Don't think it's too crazy. Just go for it.
Mikey Way
#80. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
E.W. Howe
#81. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.
Munia Khan
#82. I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.
Kate Voegele
#83. When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane.
Kevin Harvey
#84. It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin
"So not the point!" -Claire
"Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin
"You're insane." -Claire
Rachel Caine
#85. 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!
Deyth Banger
#86. In case you're short on definitions, here's one. Insanity: 'Destroying the very things that sustain us.' And if we're so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it's not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.
Josh Marshall
#88. To believe that an insane person can be helped by priests or psychiatrists, is like believing that the slaughter can help the dying lamb.
Daniel Marques
#89. 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.
Eve N. Adams
#90. Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
Thomas Pynchon
#91. I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.
Muriel Rukeyser
#92. You deserve someone who takes you out on real dates. Someone who buys you flowers and shit. Because if there's anyone in this world who's capable of insane amounts of love and who deserves to be loved that way in return, it's you.
Kim Holden
#93. They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.
Ric Ocasek
#94. There was a long silence. Magnus broke it. "I have to hand it to you," he said. "I never thought Jace and Clary would be topped by anyone else in terms of insane, self-destructive decisions, but you all are giving them a run for their money.
Cassandra Clare
#95. I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.
Charles Payne
#96. 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...
Thomas Story Kirkbride
#97. I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
Samantha Morton
#98. 'Red Lanterns' is obviously about rage, but more it's about how rage affects people - alien and human. I'll be getting into the characters of some of those insane Red Lanterns whom we've generally only seen spitting vomit in the background.
Peter Milligan
#99. For lunch I usually have something hearty like a burger or tacos. I have always believed lunch should be the biggest meal of the day. People who say breakfast should be the biggest meal are insane. You can't have dessert at breakfast.
Mindy Kaling
#100. The solution, many times more complex and difficult, would be to go beyond our ideas, obviously insane, of war as the way to peace and of permanent damage to the ecosphere as the way to wealth.
Wendell Berry
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