Insane Quotes

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

~ Sebastian Faulks

Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

~ Tori Spelling

There’s no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can’t—and shouldn’t—force yourself to want something ‘normal’ and stop wanting what you truly want. It’s a sure way to make your life miserable.

~ Alessandra Hazard

Genius and insanity are fraternal twins.

~ Carl Henegan

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

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.

~ Mark Twain

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

If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I wondered whether I had gone insane. If so, I thought, then this is what it feels like; I would never have guessed the world would still appear so sharp and vivid, the streets the same, the clouds the same, nothing different except your mind has come unhinged, its cogs whirling loose and wild and hazardous.

~ Carolina De Robertis

If I died, I’d expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I’d haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I’d haunt the girl.

~ Gena Showalter

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

~ Ilona Mialik

There is no reason why an individual, who has the misfortune to become insane, should, on that account, be deprived of any comfort or even luxury...

~ Thomas Story Kirkbride

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

You're absolutely insane, that much I'm certain of, but it's one of the many things I love about you.

~ Ashley Beale

Sometimes, you have to go Insane, to Outsane, the Sane. You know what i'm Sanin?

~ Tamjid Ahmed

Sometimes, you have to go Insane, to Outsane, the Sane. You know what i'm Sayin?

~ Cartoon Network

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

~ Anne Lamott

You are really nuts, you know it? One a these days they're gonna come over and just lock you up! You aren't playing with a full deck, Eunice. I think somebody blew your pilot light out. There's more. You know what? You got splinters in the windmill of your mind. You're playin hockey with a warped puck! I think you dine sprung a leak in your dingey....

~ Vicki Lawrence

Being crazy lets me do some pretty insane things.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

invalidation is crazy-making, and it is also at the root of gaslighting, where victims' feelings are purposely denied or manipulated in order to make them question their sanity.

~ Samantha Rodman

I might be crazy, but at least I'm not insane.

~ Anthony T. Hncks

If I, as a child, claim that something awful has happened—that someone has done something terrible to me—and everyone around me acts as if nothing is the matter, then either I must be crazy, or all of them are. And when you’re a kid and your life depends on all these people, there is no choice: of course, I must be crazy.

~ E. Sue Blume

Do you know why they call this place the Rookery? Elodin asked. I shook my head.Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'. He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally.

~ Paul Colaianni

Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.

~ Sarah E. Olson

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We all act crazy when we fall in love, stupid when we miss them, and insane when we lose them.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every human being will die. I am not God, I am not son of God, I am Christ eternal.

~ Mehmet Ali Ağca

The only difference between me and a madman is that he has the certification

~ Josh Stern

I act like shit don’t phase me inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive

~ Eminem

am i insane asked aliceyes, but all the best people are replied her father

~ Lewis Carroll

But I'm insane. You're crazy. Maybe that's why, We can just make crazy together.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.

~ Suzanne Collins

Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.

~ Suzanne Collins

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I just managed to go around with one of the Great Spells in my head for years without going insane, didn't I?' He considered the last question form all angles.'Yes, you did,' he reassured himself. 'You didn't start talking to trees, even when trees started talking to you.

~ Terry Pratchett

She was talking to a tree. Just talking to a tree. Totally normal. People probably did it every day here. They're only trees. She fought an insane urge to laugh.

~ Ruth Frances Long

Why are all pretty boys insane?

~ Justina Ireland