Quotes about Insanity

No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

People who were cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, that's who. Cats with a serious marble deficiency.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually think there's a yawning gulf. You see some poor bugger scuffling up the road with balloons tied to his ears, he's not going home to invent a rocket, is he?

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

A good, true, intense love is not complete without madness.

The powers of insanity never slept, always vying for a voice that justified their lies. Insanity. The insane self. The false self. The flesh self. The ego, the mistaken mind, the costume, the roommate…

To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.