Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn’t brave enough to be insane.

It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half...

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It’s really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world....

Cuando me di cuenta que el mundo era como esa naranja me dieron unas ganas tremendas de comerme un pedazo del mundo. Sentía una sed terrible y los dientes se me salían de la boca...

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe.””‘Know thyself.'” “We try, sir.

You could string a hundred endless days together,My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different, and then the organism starts to produce Vitriol, or bitterness, as this poison is more commonly known.

I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our...

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind – but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Yes,” Mustapha Mond was saying, “that’s another item in the cost of stability. It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained...

I stared up at the black chiffon and tried to imagine my eternity. It looked very bleak. Hopefully, insanity would claim me quickly.

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

…[I]f I don’t get going soon, the whole impetus may die—and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Socrate considérait que c’est un mal qui n’est pas loin de la folie, de s’imaginer que l’on possède une vertu, alors qu’on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l’illusion...

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that’s not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being...

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn’t sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had...

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and...

For just a second, Lauren wonders if she’s going insane. But insane people don’t think they’re insane, everybody knows that. But…since that fact of insanity is common knowledge, doesn’t that mean an insane person could...

Laughter isn’t a sign of insanity but a shield against it.

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It’s sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast… Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can’t...

We’re a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience — among so...

Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it’s climax.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

I could not imagine the kind of person that would, upon seeing a crazy talcum-powder-covered Southern lady think to herself, Hmmmm, she might make a great new friend. The line between normal and crazy seemed...

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

I know all about insanity. It’s not that bad once you beat up everyone who teases you about it.

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

I said to him, “Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or...

Everyone will say I’m insane, but I don’t care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?

Vaas: Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact… same fucking thing… over and over again expecting… shit to change… That. Is. Crazy. The first time somebody...

.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms

Please don’t question the insane glaresJust give me today,And tomorrow,Tomorrowwe will matter.

You’re insane!””I won’t argue that point.

The conquered roam free in the box of insanity.

When you aim high and you want to create a difference, all you need is a SPARK from your heart.

Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30,000 feet as well ?

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind,...

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded…

Sometimes I notice I’m demented, especially at sunset.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should...