He was walking around in circles, the smell of the old furniture suddenly very distinct. There was a newspaper in his hand and he started reading it, paying particular attention to the headlines which seemed...

I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn’t get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you have to view places of worship as free mental health clinics, in order...

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening wore on, began to seem remarkable for utter lack of anything...

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn’t go crazy. At least not today.

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

Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.

Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane!

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I’llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum.

A fox will chew off its own foot before it calls for helpBut he saw glory in being a bird with broken wings And therefore he broke his own to fit into that illusion of...

From around the corner’s edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an ominous sunrise over a dark horizon. I dimly recognized this colored light, though not from my waking memory. It...

At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the...

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

I wonder how long it would take him to realize I’m right as sin – it’s the rest of the world that’s wrong. I’m not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs....

You don’t have to visit an asylum to see insanity. All you have to do is visit Washington DC.

She never wished for the thing what she is experiencing. It is her inner voice that became her enemy.

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

Don’t you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

It’s true,’ replied Doris with a sniff in Bessy’s direction to make her sensible of a victory, even if a minor one. ‘It is amazing how so many people go insane. One day a man...

Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying “no” to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make...

Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to...

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them. When you look at a face, you see a blob of...

This is a lovely party,” said the Bursar to a chair, “I wish I was here.

Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything other than nothing. They decided to give a name to nothingness, and thereby...

I’ve proved my point. I’ve demonstrated there’s no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is...

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we’ve labeled and drugged them.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you’re looking close enough and if you can’t look that close, then you don’t really love them.

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are “happy,” O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are...

There’s talk he’s become emotionally unhinged.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

And I was wondering last night how I would fill my time today. Let me get dressed and have a spot of breakfast first.

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

Insanity on top of insanity. Even the voices in his head were hearing voices. Nice.

a detestable, viscous place populated by slugs

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.

How stand I, then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep, while to my shame I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand menThat for a fantasy...

Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

have you taken leave of your senses

Supposedly there’s an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I’ve seen it with my own eyes.

(Her husband’s departure …) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From “Butterfly on F street