Insanity Quotes

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.

I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

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

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.

I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

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.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Religion is a collective insanity.

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the dream amongst themselves and didn’t realize it. It’s when they invited the public inside their world that everything went wrong.

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

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

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God