Insane People Quotes

#1. You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

Penn Jillette

#2. You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much.

Cameron Jace

#3. So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

Ray Bradbury

#4. The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Robert M. Pirsig

#5. Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

Alan Dershowitz

#6. And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

Jack Kerouac

#7. The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

Benito Mussolini

#8. Insane people
psychologically defined, not legally define
are not in touch with reality.

Philip K. Dick

#9. Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

Rich Lowry

#10. You have to remember, that insane people can do some horrors themselves. I had committed no crime, though. I hadn't shot anybody. Yet.

Robert M. Pirsig

#11. The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago
throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.

Gene Roddenberry

#12. Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

#13. I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem ...

John Geddes

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

John Lennon

#16. If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you.

Osho

#17. Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

Jasper Fforde

#18. I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.

Sonny Rollins

#19. My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Lisa Kleypas

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

Shannon L. Alder

#21. The only explanation I can think of is that he is insane, and there are so many insane people in the world that it isn't even interesting.

Jean Webster

#22. San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Rudyard Kipling

#23. Insane people are only sane people who give in to the madness in the world.

Cameron Jace

#24. how could they let insane people gain control of devices that could do so much harm? If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

Octavia E. Butler

#25. 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.

Daniel Mackler

#26. If there was anyone to hear you, they'd think you were screaming. But you'll be laughing, wont you? Because that's what insane people do when their lives are ending, they laugh ... and they laugh ... and they laugh.

Stephen King

#27. You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

Rebecca Wells

#28. Tax and I have a secret world. We are on this earth surrounded by billions of people, and yet, this thing we have, it's just us. It's fucked up, it's insane, but it's something I can only share with him.

Nina G. Jones

#29. It's lunacy out there. Christmas makes people insane. And that bit about goodwill toward men? It sure as hell doesn't apply to retail.

J.D. Robb

#30. Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum ... but come on down. We're going crazy.

Colin Mochrie

#31. I have no clue [why people say I'm insane]. Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care.

Amanda Bynes

#32. The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

Augusten Burroughs

#33. The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

Tom Petty

#34. We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

Wayne Rogers

#35. The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

Cindy Sheehan

#36. 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

#37. Noah the first-born, tall and strange, walking always with a wondering look on his face, calm and puzzled. He had never been angry in his life. He looked in wonder at angry people, wonder and uneasiness, as normal people look at the insane.

John Steinbeck

#38. Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real "I" to reveal itself.

Paulo Coelho

#39. It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But ... lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense.

Noam Chomsky

#40. Hollywood industry people are very spoiled. I don't think they can adjust to the insane, no-money, super-hard working tradition of Japanese filmmaking. I don't think any American can go through that. They don't want to work more than twelve hours and they want Saturday and Sunday off.

Ryuhei Kitamura

#41. It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

Chuck Klosterman

#42. If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

Sam Brownback

#43. If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy,

Jeff VanderMeer

#44. '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

#45. 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

#46. Jeffrey to Felicia - Given your peculiar fashions over the past four years, I'm afraid you've caused people to believe you're a little insane.

Jen Turano

#47. Love makes people do insane things,

Michelle A. Valentine

#48. If a handful of people look at the making of the film and realize, "Oh, my god!" It was so complicated. It was like doing quantum physics calculations every day while you're telling a joke. It was so insane! So, they can feel my pain.

Rob Letterman

#49. How can anyone prove they're not insane to people that are?

Claire Merle

#50. Most people never question the core beliefs they grow up with," Emil confirmed. "You can look back on any culture five hundred years later and wonder how they could have ever believed some of the contradictory or flat-out insane things they accepted as law or common sense.

Elliott James

#51. I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

Damien Chazelle

#52. You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

L. Neil Smith

#53. People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane.

Kid Cudi

#54. People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.

Megan Fox

#55. 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

#56. Busty' Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.

Spike Milligan

#57. People who know they are insane are smart enough to fool society into thinking they aren't,

Cameron Jace

#58. L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

Matt Walsh

#59. Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

W.C. Fields

#60. When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

Matthew Perry

#61. When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

Andrew Sullivan

#62. But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

Kathy Acker

#63. What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Arthur Miller

#64. Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.

Jim Gaffigan

#65. As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.

Jordin Sparks

#66. The truth is that people who live for the future are, as we say of the insane, "not quite all there" - or here: by overeagerness they are perpetually missing the point. Foresight is bought at the price of anxiety, and, when overused, it destroys all its own advantages. The

Alan W. Watts

#67. I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

Channing Tatum

#68. So here I was in the middle of the AI world-not just hanging out there but totally dependent on the people if I expected to have a job once I graduated-and yet, day by day, AI started to seem insane. This is also what I do: I get myself trapped inside of things that seem insane.

Philip E. Agre

#69. I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.

Dennis Christopher

#70. Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

Juliette Lewis

#71. It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'

Jana Kramer

#72. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

#73. I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

Lewis Black

#74. People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet, and violating entire nations and continents. But in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, those "un-people" have no choice at all.

Andre Vltchek

#75. I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world ... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'

John Landis

#76. A sane accusation can be refuted. An insane accusation, one that makes no sense on any level, cannot be refuted, cannot even be addressed, because it is insolent nonsense. There is no sober way to defend oneself from the accusation of being a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.

John C. Wright

#77. 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.

Deyth Banger

#78. People are damn crazy and insane.

(Lie To Me Season 2 episode 1)

Deyth Banger

#79. SATAN'S LETTER
This is a strange place, and extraordinary place, and interesting. There is nothing resembling it at home. The people are all insane, the other animals are all insane, the earth is insane, Nature itself is insane.

Mark Twain

#80. When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

Phillip Lim

#81. Oh, the beautiful smiles of the insane. Soon, he was sure, there would be a study that showed that the mentally ill were actually more attractive than other people. Dating proved it!

Lorrie Moore

#82. But fist, I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escspe from routine.

Paulo Coelho

#83. Normal people don't wall their wives up in insane asylums. They don't disinherit their sons because they didn't get the child they wanted.

Leigh Bardugo

#84. I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

Ali MacGraw

#85. When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

George Bernard Shaw

#86. Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.

Enrico Fermi

#87. Is this what it's like to get close to other people
you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?

Courtney Summers

#88. I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

Katee Sackhoff

#89. Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

Gary Paulsen

#90. I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

Maeve Binchy

#91. That's insane! But then, we're talking about a religious cult here, and cult followers aren't renowned for their rationality.

Jennifer Bosworth

#92. Tons of people want to see movies about women but they don't want to make them. I don't know why. I think that's insane because look at some of these big movies like Maleficent, they're huge. It's ridiculous. So, it is really hard but I'm determined to do something about that.

Maya Forbes

#93. I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#94. Half the people in our asylums may be suffering from a physical lesion of the brain but the others are unaccountably insane. The real reason is demoniac possession brought about by looking upon terrible things that they were never meant to see.

Dennis Wheatley

#95. the insane are simply people who have chosen not to participate in the world in the same manner as the majority,

Mindy McGinnis

#96. Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would have been no way he could have achieved his murderous aims.

Volker Ullrich

#97. in the words of George Bernard Shaw, marriage inspired by love brings two people together "under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions.

Sheena Iyengar

#98. When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

Nathan Myhrvold

#99. If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?

Jay Asher

#100. It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

Terry Richardson