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...

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

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

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once.

Barbee had wondered about insanity, sometimes with a brooding dread – for his own father, whom he scarcely remembered, had died in the forbidding stone pile of the state asylum. He had vaguely supposed that...

If I was crazy, would I know it? That’s what being crazy was, wasn’t it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

He didn’t seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn’t appear to belong to our world. But...

I rolled my eyes. “He’s talking to himself. My vote is he’s crazy.” He thought about this. “Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just...

Eblis said, “No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase.When one talks to such a person, their words become the...

Insatiable is my desire for you, Insane is my love you,Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for you,Wildest are my imaginations for you, Intense is my passion for you,Soul is my...

Every town has a psychopath or two. Not just the everyday crazy person, either. Not like Crazy Larry, the paint huffing weirdo peddling around town on a child-sized Huffy ranting about the end of the...

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon...

Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your...

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Dissociation of the mind into logic-tight compartments is by no means confined to the population of the asylum. It is a common, and perhaps inevitable, occurrence in the psychology of every human being. Our political...

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

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,’...

Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.

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.