Insanity Quotes

Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.

Source Unknown

...the staff at my university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later all of Boston were behaving strangely towards me. ...I started to see crypto-communists everywhere. ...I started to think I was a man of great religious importance, and to hear voices all the time. I began to hear something like telephone calls in my head, from people opposed to my ideas. ...The delirium was like a dream from which I seemed never to awake.

John Forbes Nash

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

Orson Scott Card

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Proverb

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

William Cowper

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

Rita Mae Brown, Sudden Death ch.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

R. D. Lang

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind -- a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes

As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity.

James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

Charles Manson

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

Bill Murray

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

They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.

Jodi Picoult

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

William Allen White

All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Yiddish Proverb

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann von Goethe, attributed; u

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

Terry Pratchett

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Mark Twain