Top 100 Insanity's Quotes
#1. If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head.
Madeleine Roux
#2. Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.
Don DeLillo
#3. Maybe one day I'll read something that helps to explain it, something that offers some justifiable reason for my insanity's existence.
Alessandra Torre
#5. There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity
Josh Stern
#6. [G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . .
Cesare Lombroso
#7. The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
Emma Thompson
#8. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.
Rosellen Brown
#9. Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.
Ozzy Osbourne
#10. Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
Muddy Waters
#11. Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.
Lauren Beukes
#12. There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.
Leo Durocher
#13. It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
Malcolm Wallop
#14. I rolled my eyes. "He's talking to himself. My vote is he's crazy."
He thought about this. "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.
Katie Kacvinsky
#16. Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.
Will.i.am
#17. If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.
Leah Raeder
#18. If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!
Rob McClure
#19. 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
#20. One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.
Rush Limbaugh
#21. Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.
Ian Dury
#22. 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.
William S. Burroughs
#23. I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
Tom Cruise
#24. You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.
Katie MacAlister
#25. Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.
Ben Huh
#26. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.
T.I.
#27. Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel
#28. There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.
Ernie J Zelinski
#29. While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#30. 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
#31. It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.
Mark Vonnegut
#32. I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.
Scott Adams
#33. Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
Amy Adams
#34. Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense ... It's insanity by definition.
Jo Beverley
#35. Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the dream amongst themselves and didn't realize it. It's when they invited the public inside their world that everything went wrong.
Harmony Korine
#36. I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.
Oskar Schindler
#37. He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it ... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.
Donald Barthelme
#38. Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.
Ken Kesey
#39. Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane.
Marie Hall
#41. If Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't meet the legal test of insanity, God help the one that does meet it. I mean, it - it has to really be something. If Jeffrey Dahmer doesn't meet it, then nobody does; and for me, it's a psychological ploy to use
John Wayne Gacy
#42. That won't give me my lipstick back, you little brat!" "I couldn't help myself!" she pleads. And I unconsciously nod. That's it, kid - go with insanity. It's all you've got left.
Emma Chase
#43. That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.
Tess Gerritsen
#44. This was the torment and insanity, the enjoyment of angels, when he was helpless in Silas's hands. "Frighten me," Dominic whispered.
K.J. Charles
#45. Am I insane? I ask limply, and all feelings have fled my body. I'm numb. I'm a piece of wood. I'm a sponge, and I have no feelings, and I've absorbed all of this insanity for so long that now I'm insane myself. That's the only possible answer.
Courtney Cole
#47. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.
Saurabh Sharma
#48. Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It's the inability to relate to another human being. It's the inability to love.
Richard Yates
#49. 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?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.
Robert Crais
#51. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive ...
James Agee
#52. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.
Dianne Harman
#53. The situation has gone so far past the point of insanity it's come around and become mundane again.
C.T. Phipps
#54. To think because you have been "saved" that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn't fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. I think there's a lot of crazy stuff on the Internet. You read stuff that is wild speculation, and there's an element of it that makes me not trust it because there's this undercurrent of insanity to it sometimes.
Neill Blomkamp
#56. That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.
Seanan McGuire
#57. Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first and that civilization and culture are only enhancing man's insanity.
A Tale of Two Sisters
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#59. My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.
Christopher Titus
#60. In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
Leo Buscaglia
#61. If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.
Munia Khan
#62. Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?
Brom
#63. It's possible to take bravery to the point where it becomes insanity.
Stephenie Meyer
#64. We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#65. MOMBIE - noun - Suffers from forgetfulness, fatigue, exhaustion, moodiness, sleeplessness, confusion and moments of insanity!
Has difficulty eating or drinking anything while it's still hot and peeing alone.
Tanya Masse
#66. Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.
Jack London
#67. He'd more than achieved his goal; as usual Boyd had the ability to completely blow his mind. If insanity had a temporary cure, its name would be Boyd's Blowjob. He could open his own store full of home remedies; it'd give the term 'Head Shop' a whole new meaning.
Santino Hassell
#68. I didn't want to think about it. Indulging someone's insanity like this couldn't be healthy.
Katherine Pine
#69. That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.
Poppy Adams
#70. There's a gate in our heads, too-that's what I think. One that keeps the insanity in all of us from flooding our intellects. And at critical moments, it swings open and all kinds of weird shit comes flooding through.
Stephen King
#71. Alas, that's what adulthood is supposed to be about: "an overcoming" or (better yet) "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity.
Jennifer Senior
#72. Love isn't crazy. Love isn't a degree of insanity. Love is sanity at its purest. It forces your soul to make a rational choice - a choice to make another person's happiness your priority, to allow them access to your heart and soul.
Lila Felix
#73. Insanity," said Hatta, still mesmerized by his royal purple hair. "That always seemed the strangest word because it actually means out of sanity. Shouldn't someone who's in sanity be very sane? In means out. Curious."
"And they think we're the mad ones," laughed the smiling Cheshire Cat.
Daniel Coleman
#74. It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
Ian McEwan
#75. Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.
Peter Clines
#76. Saturday's goal was swordsmanship decent enough to get her hired on the first caravan out of this magic-drenched insanity.
Alethea Kontis
#77. Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let's love each other.
Chris Brown
#78. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our
insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult ... Just as love for one
individual which excludes the love for others is not love,
love for one's country which is not part of one's love
for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Erich Fromm
#79. What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.
Ronnie Dunn
#80. He should call it Oronzi's Law: Any sufficiently-advanced intelligence will be indistinguishable from insanity.
David Walton
#81. It seemed that other people's "normality" was the road to my insanity
Tony Attwood
#82. Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity...
Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
#83. At times there's a razor-thin line between truth and insanity.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#84. Don't you feel more than one thing at a time? That's what insanity is, trying to feel one way. That's why it feels good to go crazy. Or to be addicted. It's so much easier than feeling several things at once. -Miles
Nancy Holder
#85. The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
Malcolm McDowell
#87. My God you're sexy," Travis said, propping his head up with his hand. "The most beautiful woman at Eastern is my girlfriend. That's insanity.
Jamie McGuire
#88. 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.
Stephen Richards
#89. Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
Philip K. Dick
#90. When I'm in the kitchen, I don't want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system - and the system, it's another form of insanity that has grabbed me.
Christian Slater
#91. When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
Anthony Kiedis
#92. The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.
Dario Argento
#94. 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.
R.G. Risch
#95. Look, I didn't ask for any of this, but I'm here now. I get that it's dangerous. I get that I'm fat. I get that I'm about as far from prepared for this insanity as you can get. But I'll tell you something about me: I don't quit. So enough with the let's-scare-the-fat-girl routine, okay?
Bill Blais
#96. The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell
by cell ... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy,
insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.
William S. Burroughs
#97. I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?
Ellen Hopkins
#98. A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?
Bill Bailey
#99. Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives.
- Clara Bayliss
John Hennessy
#100. Unlike most I don't fear prison, never have, never will. Obviously I don't want it, I hate it, but it's the hate that drives me on to survive.
Stephen Richards
