Insanity Quotes

“Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. “You’re not crazy. I love you.”
― lauren hammond

“Insatiable is my desire for you,
Insane is my love you,
Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for you,
Wildest are my imaginations for you, Intense is my passion for you,
Soul is my offering for you,
Commitment is my promise to you,”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Without asking anybody’s advice
I turned myself insane
sitting under the same sun
and the same clouds.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Healer's Apprentice

“One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew

“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.”
― Philip K. Dick

“Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.”
― Anne Fortier, Juliet

“Insanity is the ability 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.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli, Too Much World

“Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back. I can give myself up to the sacred frenzy, I can have the insolence to make a full confession to mortal men that I have stolen the golden vessel of the Egyptians to make from them a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of the land of Egypt. If you forgive me I shall rejoice; if you are angry, I shall bear it; I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen.”
― Johannes Kepler, Harmonies of the World

“What a waste it is to lose one's mind.
Or not to have a mind. How true that is.”
― Dan Quayle

“Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.”
― Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Sacrifice

“God made them as stubble to our swords.”
― Oliver Cromwell

“Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states. I noted that criminals as well as the insane tended to give off a palpable, vibrating allure, a kind of animal magnetism that kept them loved by someone. How else could they survive at all? Someone had to hide them from the authorities! Hence the necessity and prevalence of sex appeal for people who were wild and on the edge.”
― Lorrie Moore

“It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception and neither are you.”
― Matthew Hunt

“Genius - the pursuit of madness.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Insanity is a direct and appropriate response to the coercive inauthenticity of society ... it is an act, expressing the intention of the insane person to meet and overcome to coercive situation; and whether or not it succeed in this intention, it is at least an act of criticism which exposes the true nature of society”
― Lionel Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity

“Today, the United States of America is by all appearances an Israeli-occupied state. The U.S. Congress dutifully authorizes the annual payment of an immense tribute to Israel, some three thousand million dollars a year. Like a subservient colony, the United States provides hundreds of thousands of young men and women to fight and die as mercenaries in Zionist-planned wars in the Middle East.”
― Christopher Lee Bollyn, Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World

“Work will drive you crazy if you let it.”
― Patrick deWitt, Ablutions

“(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From "Butterfly on F street”
― Edward P. Jones

“The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.”
― Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

“Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason.”
― M.D. Elster, Four Kings

“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana