Top 100 Quotes About The Insane
#1. I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne
#2. Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane ... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#3. Except to the insane narrow-mindedness of industrial economics, selfishness does not pay.
Wendell Berry
#4. To a happy war! Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the mountains with all the insane glee of an army of pyschopaths.
Stuart Hill
#5. The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.
Richard Powers
#6. If you start telling the truth it will sound leftist to people on the right, rightist to people on the left, and insane to the insane.
Euphrates Arnaut Moss
#7. Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite.
Michel Foucault
#8. Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane ...
Mark Twain
#9. Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.
Honore De Balzac
#10. Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
Nellie Bly
#12. There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#13. Look at the insane things the Jews believe. The Jews believe that Barbra Streisand is worth $1,000 bucks a ticket.
Greg Giraldo
#14. Like children, the insane will not budge until their desires have been satisfied.
Paulo Coelho
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
Norman O. Brown
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
Nellie Bly
#27. Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.
Simone De Beauvoir
#28. I developed a pathological pride and the insane conviction that it was my mission to teach people without knowing what I was teaching them.
Leo Tolstoy
#30. As for the insane doctrine that being born in a country gives some right to the possession of the soil of that country, it hardly requires notice.
George Saintsbury
#31. Get cleaned up, Reags, and you can tell me more about your Cabin in the Woods experience with Kane the Insane.
Rachel Higginson
#32. We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.
Frank Herbert
#33. Folly is
so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is
revealed as much in the insane asylum as in the writings of a
Cervantes or a Shakespeare, or in the deep psychological insights
and cries of revolt of a Nietzsche.
Richard Howard
#34. the insane are simply people who have chosen not to participate in the world in the same manner as the majority,
Mindy McGinnis
#35. Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard
#36. I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.
Robert Hugh Benson
#37. I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.
William Hope Hodgson
#38. Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.
Jaeda DeWalt
#39. Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.
Steve Pavlina
#40. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
#41. It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
William Faulkner
#42. Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
Elizabeth Wein
#43. On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
Robert Green Ingersoll
#45. In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.
Lin Yutang
#46. Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is.
Shia Labeouf
#47. A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. 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
#49. I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.
David Rakoff
#50. Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Franz Grillparzer
#51. But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive ... ?"
"You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
Ken Kesey
#52. Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
Eden Phillpotts
#54. And one of Richard's few merits was being able to recognise his limitations, and so he enlisted under any flag that William was able to wave. That is a universal law: the clueless obey the insane.
Albert Sanchez Pinol
#55. Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?
Tim Horvath
#56. She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.
Paulo Coelho
#57. 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
#58. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king." Mr. Bahu's face was positively twinkling with Voltairean glee. "He gets lynched.
Aldous Huxley
#59. Only the insane equate pain with success."
"The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die."
_Cheshire Cat
Lewis Carroll
#60. What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?
Kate Scelsa
#61. 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
#62. Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
S.E. Hinton
#63. Please don't question the insane glares
Just give me today,
And tomorrow,
Tomorrow
we will matter.
Nema Al-Araby
#64. This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.
L. Ron Hubbard
#65. We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.
Thor Heyerdahl
#66. Only the insane take themselves seriously.
Max Beerbohm
#67. The 'insane' always believe in first impressions.
Paulo Coelho
#68. Her eyes opened and clashed with his. Kyran had the insane urge to lean down and kiss her. Twice in a matter of hours. If he were smart, he'd put some distance between them.
Then again, only a fool would walk away from someone like her.
And Kyran wasn't a fool.
Donna Grant
#69. Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.
St. Sukie De La Croix
#70. Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?
Charles Dickens
#71. Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.
Shannon L. Alder
#72. To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.
Clifford Whittingham Beers
#73. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.
Eckhart Tolle
#74. I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
Andre Breton
#75. The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life ... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
Christina Stead
#76. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
Mark Twain
#77. The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hunter S. Thompson
#78. I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
Gabrielle Reece
#79. There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
Jason Alexander
#80. Insane! ... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
Henry David Thoreau
#81. We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.
Kesha Rogers
#82. Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
Aldous Huxley
#83. Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.
Belle Boyd
#84. Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones.
Kim Harrison
#85. Someone stabbed a dead body for reasons only the insane can fathom. My mother has found me.
Susan Ee
#86. I would never be able to lead the insane lifestyle I do, traveling all over the world, if I wasn't eating food that was simple and healthy.
Alain Ducasse
#87. Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?
William Shakespeare
#88. I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.
John Lennon
#89. The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.
Maureen Dowd
#90. You'll find that God often chooses to speak through the dying and the insane ... A healthy person might be apt to filter the divine message, to alter it with his or her own personality. In other words, a healthy person might make a shitty prophet.
Stephen King
#91. 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
#92. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
#94. But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.
Jess C. Scott
#95. "Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?"
"That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. If any one of those mass-genocidal idiots had faith, they wouldn't have the insane need to prove it to others."
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#96. Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
Nellie Bly
#97. Make him love you," Ruthless Me whispered. "Make it so he can't live without you. The devil you know." I felt her growing inside me, bringing with her the insane idea that I actually wielded power with Caleb.
C.J. Roberts
#98. There is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!
Agatha Christie
#99. 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
#100. The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.
Kurt Vonnegut
