Insanity Quotes

“Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.”
― Cathie Linz, Bad Girls Don't

“You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
― Joseph Kesselring, Arsenic and Old Lace

“I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

“Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“How are you still sane?"
"Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."
Shit.”
― Brodi Ashton, Neverfall

“Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.”
― Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay

“... insanity is never reasonable.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

“It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.”
― Frank Tallis, A Death in Vienna

“There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once.”
― Faraaz Kazi, Truly, Madly, Deeply

“You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic.”
― Solange nicole

“Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity”
― Aldous Huxley

“Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.” “Is wanting to be different a serious illness?” “It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. It’s a distortion of nature, it goes against God’s laws, for in all the world’s woods and forests, he did not create a single leaf the same as another. But you think it’s insane to be different, and that’s why you chose to live in Villete, because everyone is different here, and so you appear to be the same as everyone else. Do you understand?” Mari nodded. “People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different, and then the organism starts to produce Vitriol, or bitterness, as this poison is more commonly known.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.”
― Christopher Hill

“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, Saturday

“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.”
― Randy Alcorn, Money, Possessions, and Eternity: A Comprehensive Guide to What the Bible Says about Financial Stewardship, Generosity, Materialism, Retirement, Financial Planning, Gambling, Debt, and More

“If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.”
― Walter Moers, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

“Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.”
― Lionel Suggs

“People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.”
― Hiroko Sakai

“And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.
Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Kyubey: ...Oh, geez. I never would have thought you capable of throwing your friend off a bridge. That wasn't a sane act, Madoka!”
― Magica Quartet, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Vol. 2

“Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possède une vertu, alors qu'on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l'illusion contraire qui consiste à croire que l'on souffre d'un défaut, d'un vice.
Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 6”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.”
― Menna Anwar

“That's crazier than a boatload of prostitutes!”
― J. Richard Singleton

“Please don't question the insane glares
Just give me today,
And tomorrow,
Tomorrow
we will matter.”
― Nema Al-Araby, Remnants and Ashes

“Vanity breeds insanity; humility leads to utility.”
― T. William Watts

“She stopped shrieking after a moment. It wasn't the crazy looks she drew from the other pedestrians that made her stop. And her damaged sanity hadn't managed to repair itself. She'd left something behind in that apartment. Something she'd always taken for granted. Faith in a rational world. It was like a tiny cog had been removed from her brain, and all the gears were still working, but a slight wobble was slowly and inevitably stripping the teeth until one day, without warning the Rube Goldberg device that was her mind would fall apart with a loud SPROING.”
― A. Lee Martinez, Chasing the Moon

“She really talks to you, doesn't she?" She asked. "it's not just you talking to her. She talks BACK."
"hel, half the time she starts it." I said, half-defensively. "I know it's weird."
"Well, yes, it's weird. Technically, I think it's insane. But who am I to judge?" Maggie shrugged. "I live in a house most people view as the setting of a horror movie waiting to happen, with an army of security ninjas and a couple dozen epileptic dogs for company. I don't think I'm qualified to pass judgement on 'weird'.”
― Mira Grant, Deadline

“there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker