These Insanity quotes will inspire you. Insanity, madness, and craziness are terms that describe a group of individual and group behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns.
Below you will find our collection of inspiring, wise, and humorous old madness quotes, madness sayings, and madness proverbs collected.
Best Insanity Quotes
- “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.” ~ August Strindberg
- “In a crazy world, it’s only your insanity that will keep you sane” ~ Leo Buscaglia
- “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” ~ Robin Williams
- “Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig
- “Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.” ~ Ray Bradbury, Insanity quotes cage
- “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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“When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.” ~ Hermann Hesse
- “We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.” ~ Carl Bernstein
- “I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.” ~ Libba Bray, Insanity quotes mind
- “Insanity is contagious.” ~ Joseph Heller
- “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
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“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” ~ Philip K. Dick
- “It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.” ~ Voltaire
- “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” ~ Mark Twain, Insanity quotes mysteries
- “When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality, humanity, and ALMIGHTY.” ~ Anuj
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“Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.” ~ Kevin Spacey
- “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
- “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” ~ Oscar Levant
- “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.” ~ R. D. Laing
- “America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.” ~ Lester Roloff
- “I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.” ~ Waylon Jennings
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“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” ~ Robert Frost
- “If you think you’ve gone insane … you’re nuts.” ~ Stephen King
- “The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell – in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.” ~ Umberto Eco, Insanity quotes harmony
- “I don’t suffer from my insanity — I enjoy every minute of it.” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
- “The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.” ~ Masashi Kishimoto
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“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.” ~ Sam Levenson
- “We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, “You are mad; you are not like us.”” ~ Anthony the Great
- “Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.” ~ Horace
- “Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.” ~ Mark Twain
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“History is the same thing over and over again.” ~ Woody Allen
- “Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.” ~ Alice Cooper
- “The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it’s impossible to be insane in Texas.” ~ Malcolm McDowell
- “A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.” ~ Nathanael Emmons
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“Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.” ~ Unknown
- “A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
- “No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “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
- “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “…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.” ~ Mark Twain
- “No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.” ~ Aristotle
- “Control your life through insanity.” ~ Cliff Burton, Insanity quotes life
- “He appears mad indeed but to a few because the majority is infected with the same disease.” ~ Horace
- “I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.” ~ Desiderius Erasmus
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“Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.” ~ Diogenes
- “For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.” ~ Jean Dubuffet
- “As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.” ~ Charles Baxter
- “Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.” ~ H. P. Lovecraft
- “Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blindingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.” ~ Herman Melville
