Quotes about Insanity! 40+ Dark and Famous Insanity Quotes
Quotes about Insanity
“I’ll probably be punished for hard living.” —Tupac Shakur
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” —Bruce Lee
“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.” —George Orwell
“Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?” —Tupac Shakur
“Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.” —Marquis de Sade
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” —Salvador Dali
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live. : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.” —Robert Riskin
“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” —Karl Marx
“San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.” —Rudyard Kipling
Famous Insanity Quotes
“Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.” —Nathaniel Emmons
“Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.” —Henrik Tikkanen
“Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.” —Aristotle
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.” —R.D. Laing
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” —Bruce Feirstein
“A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.” —Kenneth Tynan
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” —Albert Einstein
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.” —Ambrose Bierce
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.” —Ray Bradbury
“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.” —Baltasar Gracin Y Morales
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bonds divide.” —JohnDryden
“When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” —Mark Twain
“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.” —Voltaire
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.” —Jean Dubuffet
“Insanity in individuals is something rare — but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.” —T. S. Eliot
“A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.” —Paul Valry
“For virtue’s self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.” —Alexander Pope
“A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.” —Austin O’Malley
“I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.” —Joseph Heller
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” —Marcus Aurelius
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.” —Sigmund Freud
“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.” —Antonin Artaud
“Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.” —Augustus William Hare And Julius Charles Hare
“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.” —Mark Twain