Quotes about Insane
Of David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, so that the king drove him away. I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.
— Psalm 34:1
The thought that any fallen human being would be able to perform his or her way into acceptance with God has to be the most insane of all delusions.
— Paul David Tripp
Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
— John 10:20
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
— Hosea 9:7
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.' 'How pleasant then to be insane!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
— Oscar Wilde
At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”
— Acts 26:24
Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
— Frank Herbert
A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution; it persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.
— Kesha
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
— John Lennon
The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.
— Marina Abramovic