Insanity Quotes

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity...edit one more time!

The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

Every man is insane, however only a few actually have true insanity.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

(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

You require a certain amount of insanity to make your dreams come true!

Love is a kind of insanity.

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!

Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason.

War is nothing more than organized insanity. That's why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don't, we won't live to tell about it.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.

When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

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

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.

Did god make man too perfect, So that a piece has to be removedthrough circumcision?

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

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?

To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over.

They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity, i say i'd go insane if i stop.

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.Or insanity.

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.And only the phoenix lives forever.

They may think I’m insane because I left my wonderful job. I may think they are insane because they don’t know the value of life.

You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

Have I..." I venture, terrified of the potential answer. "Have I gone mad?" "No, no, no." She says. "Okay, oui, peut-être, that depends. Maybe you have gone a little mad, and only for a little spell.

Insanity runs in my family, but somehow we've always managed to track it down and catch it again.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked