Quotes about Insanity

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

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.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal. Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness.

many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.