Insanity Quotes

“Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.”
― dave chappelle

“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, Awaken

“Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment”
― Jeremy Aldana

“Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.”
― Rebecca McKinsey

“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Romance

“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Insatiable is my desire for you,
Insane is my love you,
Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for you,
Wildest are my imaginations for you, Intense is my passion for you,
Soul is my offering for you,
Commitment is my promise to you,”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Without asking anybody’s advice
I turned myself insane
sitting under the same sun
and the same clouds.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything other than nothing. They decided to give a name to nothingness, and thereby the made it become something. Like you… God, who is nothing, can no longer be nothing since he is God. You could be a god for men. They need to give a body to nothingness so that nothingness can be seen and touched-at least with the imagination.”
― Aldo Palazzeschi, Man of Smoke

“Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.”
― Anne Fortier, Juliet

“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.”
― Philip K. Dick

“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“She disappeared; her voice, her laughter, and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again.”
― Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

“Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.”
― Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Sacrifice

“People are crazy
and times are strange,
I'm locked in tight
I'm out of range,
I use to care
but things have changed.”
― Bob Dylan

“God made them as stubble to our swords.”
― Oliver Cromwell

“It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception and neither are you.”
― Matthew Hunt

“His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness.”
― Jane Harper

“Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Today, the United States of America is by all appearances an Israeli-occupied state. The U.S. Congress dutifully authorizes the annual payment of an immense tribute to Israel, some three thousand million dollars a year. Like a subservient colony, the United States provides hundreds of thousands of young men and women to fight and die as mercenaries in Zionist-planned wars in the Middle East.”
― Christopher Lee Bollyn, Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World

“Work will drive you crazy if you let it.”
― Patrick deWitt, Ablutions

“When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly”
― Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

“Insanity is a direct and appropriate response to the coercive inauthenticity of society ... it is an act, expressing the intention of the insane person to meet and overcome to coercive situation; and whether or not it succeed in this intention, it is at least an act of criticism which exposes the true nature of society”
― Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity

“(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From "Butterfly on F street”
― Edward P. Jones

“The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.”
― Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory