Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse...

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.

It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also...

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

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

You’re bloody insane, Karede,” Mat said. “Unfortunately, so am I.

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a...

I couldn’t begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried...

The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée’s change of key – to myself, I compared Renée to a...

People say ‘I love Artists’, but what they really know about Artists? They’ve ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is...

He’d never actually been in a room with an insane person. Someone who asked questions they thought they already knew the answers to, or someone who asked, just to hear an answer they could disagree...

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it’s a...

Weird how I can feel so frail and tiny sometimes, and other times so brave and bold and reckless and free, and . . . Does everybody feel the same? When people get grown-up, do...

Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

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...

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, ‘You are a genius, my love!’ To which I replied, ‘My girl,’ whispering, ‘Every...

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.Or insanity.

She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the...

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanity…edit one more time!

Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.

On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove...

Oh, and I certainly don’t suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.”Henry Ward Beecher

Who was this girl alone so late at nightin search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s intrusion? Those eyes belonged to the most beautiful maniac I’ve ever met. Our love...

I rehearsed Foucault’s argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I’d have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.

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

I don’t know what I’m doing in Santa Teresa,” Amalfitano said to himself after he’d been living in the city for a week.”Don’t you? Don’t you really?” he asked himself.”Really I don’t,” he said to...

Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

Logan looked at her and wondered how someone so beautiful could be so oblivious to their own beauty, how someone so smart could be so foolish to the extent of their own intellect and how...

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you’re frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

… insanity is never reasonable.

The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at...

Not even close.

This damn ring had derailed her life. No wonder Gollum had gone insane.

And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do...

You’re not crazy. I love you.

When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It’s the only way to stay sane in insanity.

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there...

Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day in the street, but I never thought before to wonder...

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