#Insanity Quotes

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

“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”

“Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.”

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”

“No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?”

“You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.”

“War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.”

“We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.”

“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles”

“Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.”

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

“You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.”

“But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.”

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

“The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.”

“When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.”

“...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”

“Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.”

“Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.”

“Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.”

“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.”

“If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”

“If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found.”

“The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.”

“Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.”

“Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.”

“If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!”

“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

“I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.”

“I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.”

“Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.”

“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.”

“When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.”

“You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.”

“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”