Top 100 Quotes About Insane
#1. THE MISCONCEPTION: Men who have sex with RealDolls are insane, and women who marry eighty-year-old billionaires are gold diggers. THE TRUTH: The RealDoll and rich old sugar daddies are both supernormal releasers.
David McRaney
#2. Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.
Swami Vivekananda
#3. When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
Adam Carolla
#4. She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
Charles Bukowski
#5. Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.
James Cameron
#6. I felt my shoulders ease at her admission. She was going to do what she had to do, and I was going to do what I had to do. And Ivy? Ivy was going to go insane.
Kim Harrison
#7. You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.' ... They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.
Louis C.K.
#8. If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply "alone."
Sara Maitland
#9. Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.
Karl Shapiro
#10. All right. Talk to me darlin'. You're not insane. A little crazy, but not insane. And this ... everything you've gotten ... in the last few days ... do you know how many people would kill for this?"
"But ...
Shelly Laurenston
#11. 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
#12. Here was enough transcendentalism to drive even a cave-dwelling Tibetan holy man insane. Jack Sawyer was everywhere; Jack Sawyer was everything.
Stephen King
#13. Like children, the insane will not budge until their desires have been satisfied.
Paulo Coelho
#14. Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.
David Icke
#15. The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
Steven Wright
#16. I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.
Brad Warner
#17. It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.
Davy Crockett
#18. 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
#19. Go for a 90 percent approval rating with people you know. The other 10 percent either don't know you well enough or are insane.
Robert J. Braathe
#20. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
Alice Waters
#21. It seems insane to be expected to lie in a dark room alone and not feel completely crazy and bipolar and confused and more awake.
Jordan Castro
#22. It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
Johnny Depp
#23. I'm talkin' about you. Stop pretending you're normal. You're insane. Make that work for you.
Jennifer Crusie
#24. These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#25. What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many wines right now, Beaujolais and the delicious wines pouring in from southern Italy and Sicily keep many wine drinkers from switching to iced tea.
Frank J. Prial
#26. No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you.
Woody Allen
#27. You people realize you're going to visit a person who is clinically insane in order to find out your future, right?' Lexie says. 'I mean, who's crazier, the person who's been put in a mental institution or the person who asks that person for advice?
Bree Despain
#29. When
I think of all the things I've been thinking of
I feel insane
Frank O'Hara
#30. I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing.
Evan Peters
#32. I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#33. And if sometimes, late at night in bed, I questioned whether or not I truly was insane, I told myself that it didn't matter. I was too happy to care.
Jessica Verday
#34. I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked out by the language and the stories. I felt that the God being talked about there, who was this insane, vindictive patriarch - it was kind of thrilling, and titillated something in me at the time.
Nick Cave
#35. I imagine we're killing ourselves right now in al manner of ways that'll seem insane to people in the future.
Ransom Riggs
#36. Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
Theodor Adorno
#37. Wise decisions have not given us this position of freedom," N7 said. "Wild, nearly insane decisions have proven best so far. Perhaps we should stick to what works.
Vaughn Heppner
#38. But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
Mark Twain
#39. The stars are honest and sensible. But humanity is insane!
Lloyd C. Douglas
#40. By all means don't THINK about the validity of what they're claiming your life hinges on. Oh do not ask what IS it. Do not ask not whether it's not insane. Simply open wide for the spoon.
David Foster Wallace
#41. I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.
Michael Richards
#42. If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.
Kate Winslet
#43. Insane people are only sane people who give in to the madness in the world.
Cameron Jace
#45. Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.
Ray Winstone
#46. [Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup ... I end up always picking the dress at the last second.
Julie Bowen
#47. These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
#48. Riley."
Kisses on her cheek, along her jaw. "So, how many brat-lets do you want?"
"As many as it takes to drive you insane.
Nalini Singh
#49. Excuse me,' he said. 'I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?'
'Possible, but very unlikely. Why?
Neil Gaiman
#50. In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
Edie Falco
#52. Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.
Tessa Dare
#53. It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.
Henri Michaux
#54. The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#55. And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.
Enid Bagnold
#57. I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.
Alice Cooper
#58. An insane person is, basically, someone that isn't true to himself and lives between the reality he understands and the distorted perspective of it that he's trying to control. And the bigger this gap is, the more you can be sure to be in front of a neurotic or psychotic individual.
Daniel Marques
#59. I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Nellie Bly
#60. Menshikov wants to see the old gold swallowed by Apophis. He wants to see the world plunged into darkness and chaos. He is quite insane.
"Oh."
[great response, I know. But what do you say to a story like that?]
Rick Riordan
#61. If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.
Dave Mustaine
#64. An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders.
Stendhal
#65. Hell is an Eagles game where the bleachers are always freezing, the team is always loosing, and my family is insane
Jennifer Weiner
#66. Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing.
Cecelia Ahern
#67. People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.
Ruby Wax
#68. The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.
Clarice Lispector
#70. Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.
Matthew Vaughn
#71. I Love Her and Hate Her I Wish Her Happiness I Wish Her Unhappiness I Hope She Is Happy I Hope She Is Never Happy I Curse Her I Bless Her She Drives Me Insane She Keeps Me Sane She is My Angel Dark She is My Demon Bright
Timothy Stanley
#72. One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.
Alan W. Watts
#73. When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.
Robert M. Pirsig
#74. Are - you - insane? said Hermione in a hushed voice.
'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging.
J.K. Rowling
#75. Afterward it was hard to be sure exactly when the sublime light had dazzled their minds and driven them mad, since they went insane with such calm and dignity that nobody noticed.
Frances Hardinge
#76. You can't have an objective view of the larger picture and go insane - that's what I'll believe. The two are mutually exclusive.
Matt Dymerski
#77. New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
Henry Miller
#78. More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.
Derek R. Audette
#79. Every night when I watch you sleep, I breathe you in. Every time I make you smile, my heart beats a tad bit faster. You are the blood flowing through my veins. If I had to go back to the life I had before, I would go freaking insane.
Shannon Eckrich
#80. Anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.
Gena Showalter
#81. I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.
Martin Scorsese
#82. BFF manifesto rule number one: no bullshit. If I thought you were insane, I'd tell you -Anita
Eileen Cook
#83. The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.
Michael Ian Black
#84. Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.
James Lankford
#85. Island Records was the first record label to ... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.
Shawn Mendes
#86. How insane would it have been to know Chloe in my early twenties? We would have torn this place up, and probably lasted only a weekend. Isn't it amazing how you meet the person you're meant to meet, when you're supposed to meet her?
Christina Lauren
#87. For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'
Kurt Braunohler
#88. 'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'
George Mikes
#89. Jessie Kay had once briefly considered thinking about exercising along with Monica's video. Then she'd found a bag of Kit Kat Minis and the insane idea went back to hell where it belonged.
Gena Showalter
#90. It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.
Sean Combs
#91. It's just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they'd go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#92. It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Sun Ra
#93. OK, I'm insane, too, but I'm also charming, so that makes it all right.
Ryan Attard
#94. Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.
Frederick Lenz
#95. My work space is so visually crammed. It's like an insane candy store. The number of textiles I'm surrounded with is mind boggling. It's a treat to come home to a nice negative space.
Colleen Atwood
#96. I wonder sometimes whether a person has to become insane these days in order to feel certain things. Lessing once said, Who doesn't become insane over certain things, has no sanity to lose,
Erich Fromm
#97. The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there ... Not the other way around!
John Cleese
#98. I'm the type of person that will do triple sessions in one day. I'll do Pilates, I'll do spinning, and then I'll go to the gym and do weights - which is insane.
Laura Prepon
#100. I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.
Sloane Crosley
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