Top 100 Quotes About Insanity
#1. There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity
Josh Stern
#2. Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.
Menna Anwar
#3. [G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . .
Cesare Lombroso
#4. What motivates people to stay sane in all this insanity, I don't know.
Cameron Jace
#5. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
#6. I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.
Brandon Sanderson
#7. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Stacy Mantle
#8. The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
Emma Thompson
#9. We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
William Shakespeare
#10. It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
Henry A. Kissinger
#11. You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.
Frederick The Great
#12. I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
Rumi
#14. To openly defy Him who is clothed with omnipotence, who can rend us in pieces or cast us into Hell any moment He pleases, is the very height of insanity. To
Arthur W. Pink
#15. I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.
Matt Taibbi
#16. Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.
Seymour Krim
#17. In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.
Martijn Benders
#18. Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance - or in insanity.
Erich Fromm
#19. If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)
Brigham Young
#20. It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
Erwin McManus
#21. 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
#22. But feeling down can make you feel up if you're the creative type. The emotional damage may have already been done to you, but stop whining. Use your insanity to get ahead.
John Waters
#23. I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.
Gary Shteyngart
#24. I believe I have moments of pure genius...the rest of them are all insanity.
Viveca Benoir
#25. Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.
Tori Amos
#26. You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
Billy Joel
#27. I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
Libba Bray
#28. People who would refuse to share their bread shared their insanity instead.
-Three Daughters of Eve
Elif Shafak
#29. You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Henry Rollins
#30. They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.
Jodi Picoult
#31. This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.
Terry Pratchett
#32. In my business, one learns there is a fine line between insanity and genius. We would be wise to give this man a little respect.
Dan Brown
#33. Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.
Mark Vonnegut
#34. You have to dig SEEEEERIOUSLY deep in Insanity MAX:30!
Shaun Thompson
#35. It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.
Tippi Hedren
#36. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.
Eckhart Tolle
#38. Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.
Ozzy Osbourne
#39. As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.
Melissa De La Cruz
#40. Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#41. Genius has its limitations.
Insanity ... not so much -Bumper Sticker
Darynda Jones
#42. Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
Muddy Waters
#43. She is the harbinger of nightmares as well as death, destruction, and insanity. Said to reign in an alternate dimension, a bleak and desertlike twilight version of reality, Lilith has long been hailed as the queen of mental darkness.
Kelly Creagh
#44. 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
#45. Error in extremis - extremely pure, extremely persistent, or extremely peculiar - becomes insanity. madness is radical wrongness.
Kathryn Schulz
#47. (aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am.
William Shakespeare
#48. 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
#50. Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.
Charles Baudelaire
#51. Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?
Jon Ronson
#52. I realized then why I was avoiding all the other patients. They were all potential mirrors. What I really feared wasn't the insanity of strangers. What I feared the most was my own disease. I was terrified I would catch a glimpse of myself in passing.
Terri Cheney
#54. The construction of the nuclear doomsday machine - and its continued maintenance and development since the mid-twentieth century - is surely one of the most astounding acts of collective insanity in the history of the human species.
Richard L. Currier
#55. Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.
Amy Adams
#56. For he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.
Stefan Grabinski
#57. When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
George Bernard Shaw
#58. The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
Jimmy Buffett
#60. Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.
Rebecca McKinsey
#61. The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
Criss Jami
#62. Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren't completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling
Jayden Hunter
#63. 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
#64. The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.
Carl Elliott
#65. Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.
Stephen Richards
#66. Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.
Terry Pratchett
#67. You can take care of him," she insisted. This was madness. This was a true example of temporary insanity.
"I can't."
"Why not?" She demanded.
"Umm ... I don't ... like ... " I couldn't say diapers. I had my own baby! "I don't like ... black ... babies ...
L.D. Davis
#68. By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.
Piers Anthony
#70. Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.
David Korten
#71. Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
#72. I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.
Tommy Shaw
#73. Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any wonder that language is an area of such interest in psychology?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
Mort W. Lumsden
#74. They want rational reasons and are unwilling to cross into the territory of insanity, which is where all the real answers lie.
Jacques Antoine
#75. Yeah, I think the point has well and truly sunk in by now, and I can just carry on. I don't even know what I'm looking for except a bit of hilarity and mild insanity musically, and I can get none of that by just delving into the history.
Robert Plant
#76. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Criss Jami
#77. . . . there are two outlets for the frustration of that powerlessness: insanity and violence.
Laura Bates
#79. 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
#80. He rose late. He was recklessly extravagant and a notorious womaniser. The King was never a cipher. But well before his world was clouded by illness and insanity his capacity for public business was limited. He was idle, slow-witted and easily bored.
Jonathan Sumption
#81. Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.
P.N. Elrod
#83. I wasn't living on the edge, I had gone over it. Insanity was now the norm and I had to keep feeding it in order to maintain the new domain I had created for myself. I had one eye on the road and one on the rear view mirror when I wasn't pre-occupied with my beer, cigarettes or car stereo.
Steven C. Smith
#84. Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.
Jeanette Winterson
#85. - Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.
James Joyce
#87. 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
#88. Insanity doesn't run in our family," I said. "It strolls along, takes its time and gets to know you personally.
Nick Wilgus
#89. If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.
Leah Raeder
#91. 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
#92. The Road to insanity begins in the mind , Some have crossed half way , some have just begin ...
Claudius
#93. 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
#94. Love is always a species of insanity. If
Kim Newman
#95. I promised him!" he screamed, realizing even as he did so that his voice was laced with something wrong. Almost insanity. "I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!
James Dashner
#96. A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us
Michael Foot
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. The scariest thing about drugs is the brink of it all: when you're on the verge of insanity but you think your actions sane. And you can't stop. You just can't stop.
Courtney Elizabeth Young
#100. Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.
Alexander Lowen