Insanity Quotes
1. The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
2. I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
3. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they’re ok, then it’s you.
4. There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
5. It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
6. In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
7. One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.
8. Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter
9. I’ll take crazy over stupid any day.
10. The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
11. Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
12. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
13. Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
14. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
15. If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them.
16. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
17. If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
18. One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
19. Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
20. I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don’t want to be sane.
21. Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
22. I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
23. First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
24. When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
25. Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
26. Do you think it’s possible for an entire nation to be insane?
27. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
28. We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
29. A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
30. In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
31. Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.
32. I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?
33. 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.
34. People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN’T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.
35. Insanity is catching.
36. Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
37. When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
38. Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
39. Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
40. Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.
41. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
42. Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
43. Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.
44. Yet mad I am not…and very surely do I not dream.
45. Why can I never go back to bed? Who’s is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I’m half past dead?
46. Oh, and I certainly don’t suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.
47. Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
48. Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.
49. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
50. Innocence is a kind of insanity
51. Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.
52. The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!
53. I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
54. Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
55. Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
56. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish’d and cured is that the lunacy is so
ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
57. The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
58. Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
59. Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.
60. 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.
