Insanity Quotes
I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.
Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.
But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.
Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
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.
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.
The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.
She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.
I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.
