Insanity Quotes

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Oscar Wilde

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Terry Pratchett

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

Kurt Vonnegut

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Aldous Huxley

Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Lang

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

Cyril Connolly

The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienation from his instinctual foundation, i.e., by his uprootedness and identification with his conscious knowledge of himself, by his concern with consciousness at the expense of the unconscious. The result is that modern man can know himself only in so far as he can become conscious of himself--his consciousness therefor orients itself chiefly by observing and investigating the world around him, and it is to its peculiarities that he must adapt his psychic and technical resources. This task is so exacting, and its fulfillment so advantageous, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively replace reality. Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious, spirit and nature, knowledge and faith, a split that becomes pathological the moment his consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side.

Carl Gustav Jung, The Undiscover

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.

Samuel Levenson

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin, from lyrics to

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Far from the madding crowd

Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Paulo Coelho

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

J.K. Rowling

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Nora Ephron

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

Mark Twain

How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

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