Insanity Quotes

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

~ Walter Moers

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

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

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?

~ Tim Horvath

I put my clothing into the refrigerator and the foods into my wardrobe, am I in love?

~ Munia Khan

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

~ Cathie Linz

Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.

~ Lauren Hammond

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

~ Joseph Kesselring

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

Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.

~ Lionel Suggs

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

~ Christopher Hill

Please don't question the insane glaresJust give me today,And tomorrow,Tomorrowwe will matter.

~ Nema Al-Araby

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

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

~ V. S. Pritchett

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

~ Arthur Miller

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

~ Mark Twain

Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.

~ Otto Friedrich

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

~ Sigmund Freud

Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.

~ George Santayana

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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mad bad and dangerous to know.

~ Lady Caroline

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

~ Samuel Beckett

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

~ Lydia Lunch

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

~ Mort Sahl

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

~ Ian Frazier

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

~ Unknown

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

~ Mercedes Mccambridge

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

~ Cary Grant

Religion is induced insanity.

~ Madalyn Murray O'hair

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

~ Penn Jillette

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

~ Ambrose Bierce