I’m all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they,...

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Do you think it’s possible for an entire nation to be insane?

It is at this hour that I am in my right mind: it is all the rest of the day that I am enchanted.

This is insanity!””No, this is scholarship!

Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?

You see, there’s a theory current you’re insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Thinking you might be crazy can drive you crazy.

One man’s insanity is another man’s genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls”.

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.

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it “evil.” It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.

Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.

I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.

Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day – very much such a sweetness as this – I struck my first whale – a boy-harpooneer of...

Genius – the pursuit of madness.

Insanity is a disease, and it is highly contagious.

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

They said what doesn’t kill you made you stronger. No, it left you with holes blown through your soul.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly, both, caught in a cocoon of...

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)

I spent most of my life believing lwas crazy because all the crazy things I experienced in childhood were treated as nonexistent or normal. This belief colored every decision made, from something so basic as...

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.

I’m talking to myself in two different personas now. I’m reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?

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.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn’t insanity than what is?

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend...

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

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.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.