Insanity Quotations | Page 5

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world.

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

We're playing those mind games together, pushing the barriers, planting seeds, playing the mind guerilla.

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or insanity: for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected Aladdin caves.

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.