Quotes about Insanity

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness.  What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad.  It was a very strong temptation..

There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office -
Why vote him in,
For he never keeps the accounts straight.
He get all kinds of crooked deals
Happening all over town
That will just give you a big headache
And glue to your kisser
A gigantic
Confused
Frown.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat:  'we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'

All war is insane.

Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

  For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psycotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.

Sanity is the playground for the unimaginative.

I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I couldn't drive you insane, you were behind the wheel the whole time. In your life, I ride shotgun.

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every moment of it!

Never accept an invitation to go crazy.

To jump without a net is the scariest thing imaginable and it's the essence of courage. To weave a net first the essence of intelligence. The Definition of Insanity is to jump believing you can weave the net midair.

Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and he fell attempting to dismount.  Now the horse kicked him in the head, and I feared for his safety, but Ecthgow laughed and kicked the horse back.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

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

Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

Walking, walking on the tight-rope of insanity Walking, walking on the verge of losing your mind.

In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

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

[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions.

The judge asked, "What do you plead?" I said, "Insanity, your honor. Who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?"