A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

We’re all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected....

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever...

Insanity is catching.

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no...

I have many lovers.Where ever I look, I find them.There is no place devoid of them.They are everywhere:In the enchanting Cottonwood trees,The rivers, the rocky roads, the hills, the mystic trails,The snow capped mountains,The skies,...

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.

Manie sans délire – insanity without delusion.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

That’s crazier than a boatload of prostitutes!

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

Cory wondered if maybe some people were better off dead. When you’re dead you don’t have to face the horrors of life, whether it’s striving to be the best, dealing with something bad you or...

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, “what about the great men with bushy hairs?”. He replied, “education had made them mad, so study...

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.

Fear brings your mind to the edge of insanity, where everything is so frighteningly crystal clear you can take in every little thing that’s happening around you. Your body runs purely on adrenaline, with not...

I suddenly remembered that Murray Gell-Mann and I were supposed to give talks at that conference on the present situation of high-energy physics. My talk was set for the plenary session, so I asked the...

We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the Moon: Their Stories seem to have neither Head nor Tayl to them, Sir...

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish’d and cured is that the...

When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.Or not to have a mind. How true that is.

Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every...

I am a sick man – oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care for nothing. If you had been this way a few...

About his madmen Mr. Lecky was no more certain. He knew less than the little to be learned of the causes or even of the results of madness. Yet for practical purposes one can imagine...

Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.

Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don’t like to put up with that level of insane unless there’s some kind of high-calorie compensation.

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.

In Hollywood if you don’t have a shrink, people think you’re crazy.

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go...

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion...

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane...

For what was living with a man if it wasn’t living inside his insanity?

MEMORY’S SO TREACHEROUS. ONE MOMENT YOU’RE LOST IN A CARNIVAL OF DELIGHTS, WITH POIGNANT CHILDHOOD AROMAS, THE FLASHING NEON OF PUBERTY, ALL THAT SENTIMENTAL CANDY-FLOSS…THE NEXT, IT LEADS YOU SOMEWHERE YOU DON’T WANT TO GO……SOMEWHERE...

Even as a child the glimpse of what a normal life would have been was always beyond my vision and my grasp. No matter what I glimpsed – whether hope or warning, happiness or sadness...

Let’s make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don’t say we’ll never find a way / And tell me all my love’s in vain.

You have lost your mind,”Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. “Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.

The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.

A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.

Never attempt to apply logic to madness, for there is none; it is the nature of madness to be illogical.

I wondered if perhaps I’d gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.

Very true,” she said as she eased back into the cushions.With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy...

Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It’s a schizophrenic business.