He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. “Because if I don’t get going soon, the whole impetus may die–and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge...

Just because I’m insane doesn’t mean I have to act all crazy.

She disappeared; her voice, her laughter, and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again.

Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity … Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved...

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of…

I was never attracted to big things―convertible Porsche’s, mansions, fame, and money. I always found those things to be repulsive and energy-draining. Give me the gutters, the junkyards, the bars, the liquor stores, the grimy...

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten...

Are you crazy? It’s a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks...

Ridcully sighed.’All right, you fellows,’ he said. ‘No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who’s playing silly buggers?’The other senior wizards stared at him.’I, I, I don’t think we can play it any more,’...

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

My pillow is as good as any oceanto drown in the nightmare of myself.I swam all the way here from the moon.

The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are...

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

She was hearing the words. They just weren’t registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

This madman must be stopped.

If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter

Unfortunately, Susan didn’t remember what Jane Fulton once said, ‘Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

I’ll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And...

God’s creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.

Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.

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.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn’t brave enough to be insane.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half...

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It’s really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world....

Cuando me di cuenta que el mundo era como esa naranja me dieron unas ganas tremendas de comerme un pedazo del mundo. Sentía una sed terrible y los dientes se me salían de la boca...

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe.””‘Know thyself.'” “We try, sir.

You could string a hundred endless days together,My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different, and then the organism starts to produce Vitriol, or bitterness, as this poison is more commonly known.

I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our...

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation?...

I stared up at the black chiffon and tried to imagine my eternity. It looked very bleak. Hopefully, insanity would claim me quickly.

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

…[I]f I don’t get going soon, the whole impetus may die—and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Socrate considérait que c’est un mal qui n’est pas loin de la folie, de s’imaginer que l’on possède une vertu, alors qu’on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l’illusion...

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that’s not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being...

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn’t sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had...