Insanity Quotes

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

~ G.k. Chesterton

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

~ Anthony Kiedis

When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionary process. The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a reflection of man's awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive hunch that somewhere along the line of his ascent something has gone wrong.

~ Arthur Koestler

In our national parlance, what's usually meant by the word maverick is someone who skirts the edge of sanity--or is so insane as to appear sane--who then does something absolutely insane and yet, after the passage of time, and especially if the maverick's creation yields a profit of any kind, is deemed less and less insane until the maverick worms his or her way into the fibers of history. Then generations grow to envy the ingenuity and courage of the maverick while glossing over the maverick's genetic kookiness. On such shoulders, a country rises.

~ Michael Paterniti

I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

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

Sanity exists only in books, while Insanity rules our lives!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing.

~ Stephen King

He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.

~ Ransom Riggs

This is kind of insane, isn't it? I asked. I've only known you for a few days.Five days. Six days if you include today. His blue eyes met mine, our foreheads still touching. It's not insane. Insanity is a state of mind which prevents normal perception and/or behaviours.I chuckled at his clinical reply, but he pulled back so he could see my face properly and shrugged. Jack, what I perceive of you, and how I've conducted myself in your company is with full mental cohesion. His cheeks stained with colour. And Einstein would have you believe that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. He bit his lip and laughed at himself, I think. But I don't want different results. I wouldn't change a thing.

~ N.r. Walker

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.

~ Steven Magee

To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

~ Lewis Carroll

Creating conflicts and killing each other to be in accord with our only Creator should be the definition of insanity.By promoting divisions and hostility among men, all monotheisms have proven that they are nothing but banal manners of clan formation.

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

The young man was sort of ... well ... peering at this shovel, and Lisey knew not by his face but by the whole awkward this-way-n-that jut of his lanky body that he didn't have any idea what he was seeing. It could have been an artillery shell, a bonsai tree, a radiation detector, or a china pig with a slot in its back for spare silver; it could have been a whang-dang-doodle, a phylactery testifying to the pompetus of love, or a cloche hat made out of coyote skin. It could have been the penis of the poet Pindar. This guy was too far gone to know.

~ Stephen King

In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.

~ Raymond Radiguet

A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for me to hope for anything better reminds me of a quote attributed to Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Dorothy is predictable. She does the same thing repeatedly and expects not a different result but the same one she got the last time she did whatever she wants with little regard for anyone else. So maybe she's the sane one....

~ Patricia Cornwell

Spirals.... this town is contaminated with spirals.

~ Junji Ito

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But, he thought, what does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see it, but what is it?He thought, It is something they do, something they are. It is their unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not being aware of what they do to others, the destruction they have caused and are causing. No, he thought. That isn't it. I don't know; I sense it, I intuit it. But -- they are purposelessly cruel... is that it? No, God, he thought. I can't find it, make it clear. Do they ignore parts of reality? Yes. But it is more. It is their plans. Yes, their plans. The conquering of the planets. Something frenzied and demented, as was their conquering of Africa, and before that, Europe and Asia.Their view; it is cosmic. Not a man here, a child there, but an abstraction : race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre. Not of honourable men but of Ehre itself, hounor; the abstract is real, the actual is invisible to them. Die Güte, but not good men, this good man. It is their sense of space and time.

~ Philip K. Dick

is he crazy? --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield

~ J.d. Salinger

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

~ Henry Rollins

I was sane once. It was horrible.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

When I look at you as if you're crazy it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

~ Marie Rutkoski

Burnout…occurs because we’re trying to solve the same problem over and over.

~ Susan Scott

A psychologist would probably diagnose insanity for a nation that spends more on its military than the next 8 nations combined, while its poor are starving.

~ Steven Magee

At night I locked my bedroom door, because [my father] could not sleep and would insist on talking to me, endlessly, without making sense. But there was a small window over the door which could not be locked. One night I woke up to see him slithering through the tiny aperture and jumping nimbly to the floor. But he paid no attention to me. He aimlessly picked up various pieces of heavy mahogany furniture and let them drop with seemingly little effort. In his insanity he had become superhumanly agile and powerful. Staying with him was a nightmare.

~ Jung Chang

I think I will drink my hemlock now....

~ Tracy Groot

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

all you had to do was to keep your insanity undercontrol

~ Paulo Coelho

The greywastes was a basin overflowing with insanity, the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died

~ Quil Carter

The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.

~ Evan Currie

I have to admit, insanity is so much fun.

~ Cameron Jace

What slave work do you want me to do for you?” asked Diogenes when he had been bought.“Be a teacher to my children,” answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

~ Tomichan Matheikal

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

You know what insane people are, Alice? the Pillar says. They are just sane people who know too much.

~ Cameron Jace

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

~ Charles Dickens

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

~ Douglas Adams

Are you insane?” she’d replied. “Yes.” Jeoff didn’t even bat an eye as he admitted it.-Arabella & Jeoff

~ Eve Langlais

I’ve been an inmate in Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. I was one of ‘them’. I was once Britain’s most unstable madman! This book is a complete one off! If you’re a nervous type of reader then don’t read it. You’ve been warned! You are now entering the world of insanity; please keep hold of your sanity until the book comes to a stop!

~ Stephen Richards

Insanity is nothing more than ordinary.

~ Caitlyn Paige