insane quotes

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

— Philip Kindred Dick

“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”

— William James

“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”

— Abraham Maslow

“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”

— Henry Miller

“Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.”

— Richard Dawkins

“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