160 Insane Person Quotes

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Famous Insane Person Quotes

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane — Leo Buscaglia

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. — Unknown Author

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R. D. Lang

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. — Jean Dubuffet

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. - Kevin Spacey

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. — Kevin Spacey

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? — Ursula K. LeGuin

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. - Ray Bradbury

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. — Ray Bradbury

Control your life through insanity. — Cliff Burton

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. - Cesare Lombroso

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. — Cesare Lombroso

A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on. — William S. Burroughs

The madman is a dreamer awake — Sigmund Freud

Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane. — Unknown

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane. — Puff Daddy

Short Insane Person Quotes

  • A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience — Tim Minchin
  • All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce
  • The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy. — Jim Jefferies
  • Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified. — Winona Ryder
  • In a mad world, only the mad are sane. — Akiro Kurosawa
  • America is a lunatic asylum. — Ezra Pound
  • Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy. — Janet C. Long
  • Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates. — Erving Goffman
  • The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy. — Susanna Kaysen
  • In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. — J. G. Ballard

Insane Person Image Quotes

Insane person quote Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Are You Crazy Quotes

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

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything without even the guidance of any one. — Swami Vivekananda

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. — George Carlin

Insane person quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

The beauty of empathy is that it doesn’t demand that you agree with the other person’s ideas you may well find them crazy. But by acknowledging the other person’s situation, you immediately convey that you are listening. — Chris Voss

Sal and I were in the mall just shopping, and we're walking through this retail store and little old lady goes 'NO! You're not gonna get at me.' We were just shopping. She was looking for cameras, she was like 'I know who you are, you crazies!' and she walked away from us. — Joe Gatto

I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice. — Slash

Insane person quote Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. — Woody Guthrie

The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy. — Harriet Morgan

You're crazy until you're successful, then you are a genius. — MrBeast

Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last. — Vanessa L. Williams

Am I Crazy Quotes

I want to say it to so many people, 'why you have to be so serious?' And I also want people to think 'this kid has really gone crazy' when they see my performance on the stage. Luckily, I am able to achieve all of these. — G-Dragon

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me — Isaac Newton

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia. — Shakira

Insane person quote Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy. — Lucille Clifton

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat. - Remedios Varo

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat. — Remedios Varo

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. — Robert Anton Wilson

Insane person quote Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having every
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I'm chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that. — Nicole Polizzi

I wouldn't say I'm girl-crazy, because that makes me sound like a bit of a womanizer. That isn't really me. But I am quite flirty - maybe too flirty. I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I like to have fun! — Harry Styles

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse. — Anne Sexton

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying. — Iggy Pop

Being Insane Quotes

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Gerald G. Jampolsky

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. - Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. — Voltaire

I'm insane, I'm emotional, but I'd rather be that than a robot. So that's definitely something that I wanted to get out there. Especially with Cry Baby's story, because the album is about Cry Baby but I realized that me and her went through the same change. — Melanie Martinez

Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it. — Morgan Freeman

Insane person quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion. — Robert M. Pirsig

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. - Waylon Jennings

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. — Waylon Jennings

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

I wish I could just be one of those that tweet some random bs but still for no reason get insane amount of RTs. that would b so F*ing sweet. — PewDiePie

Crazy Insane Quotes

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. — C. S. Lewis

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg

America is an insane asylum run by the inmates. — Lester Roloff

Insane person quote A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy — Matthew Healy

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen. — Michel de Montaigne

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane. — Kate Winslet

Insane person quote Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you. — Willie Nelson

We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else! — Krishna Das

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity. — Dane Cook

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago. — Phylicia Rashad

Insanity Quotes

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. — George Carlin

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. — Edgar Allan Poe

Insane person quote I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more. — Oskar Schindler

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse

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

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. - Aristotle

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle

The different sorts of madness are innumerable. — Avicenna

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. — Albert Einstein

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. — Jimmy Buffett

Crazy People Quotes

Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you. — Drake

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking

If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion. — Maxine Waters

Insane person quote Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy. — Usain Bolt

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person. — Bashar al-Assad

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. — Pema Chodron

Insane person quote Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!

There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them. — Gucci Mane

I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction. — Marco Pantani

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid. — Arsene Wenger

It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away. — Stuart Wilde

Crazy Man Quotes

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. - Carly Fiorina

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. — Carly Fiorina

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. — Robert H. Schuller

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. — William Ernest Hocking

Think about running an iron man. You have to toughen up... you literally have to change your body to be capable of doing those things. It's the same thing with the mind. You have to train your mind to be capable of sticking through, of working crazy long hours, learning things you don't want to do. — Tom Bilyeu

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. [...] A manly man don't want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza. — Herman Cain

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. — Robert G. Allen

I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man! — Ryan Reynolds

Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man. — Nabeshima Naoshige

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Definition Of Insanity Quotes

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. — Malcolm McDowell

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love. — Richard Yates

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke

History is the same thing over and over again. — Woody Allen

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure. — Masashi Kishimoto

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership. — Scott Adams

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. — Stephen Covey

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity. — James Cook

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know. — Mackenzie Phillips

Madness And Insanity Quotes

You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity. — Frederick the Great

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R. D. Laing

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual. — Martha C. Nussbaum

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

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. — Seneca

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. — Peter O'Toole

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. — Henry Van Dyke

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More Insane Person Quotes

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. — Dorothea Dix

I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist. — Francis Schaeffer

Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane. — Eckhart Tolle

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane. — Mike Rowe

I don’t think a regular person appreciates how insane it is that computers work. I propose we stare at each other mind-blown for about 1 hour per day, in small groups in circles around a chip on a pedestal, appreciating that we can coerce physics to process information like that. — Andrej Karpathy

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon. — Eugene Ionesco

If you support Ukraine joining NATO then you support the US fighting a hot war with Russia right now. I don’t care what your reasoning is. If you support that, you are a dangerously insane person who should never be allowed to make these decisions. — Dave Smith

Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something. — Enrico Fermi

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen. — Enoch Powell

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. — Aleister Crowley

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that). — Richard Dawkins

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane. — W. H. Auden

I have no clue [why people say I'm insane]. Every time I've heard it, it came from an ugly person's mouth, so I don't care. — Amanda Bynes

While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity. — Aristotle

To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind. — Sathya Sai Baba

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane. — Kurt Vonnegut

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. — Mike Nichols

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth. — Chanakya

I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites. — Fergie

You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you. — Marie Lu

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. — Marguerite Young

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person. — Robert Thurman

I guess personally I really like "Take on Me" by Aha. I think it just defines the 80s and how insane it was and like neon and like calculator watches and that whole thing. — Evan Peters

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness — Mae West

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world. — Bill Hader

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so. — Clifford Whittingham Beers

I'm the type of person that will do triple sessions in one day. I'll do Pilates, I'll do spinning, and then I'll go to the gym and do weights - which is insane. — Laura Prepon

The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time. — Demetri Martin

If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really. — Dennis Lehane

Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way. — Frederick Lenz

Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt — Darynda Jones

Do you love him?" There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them. — Richelle Mead

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. — Paulo Coelho

One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self. — Rosellen Brown

I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever. — Youth Lagoon

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person. — Criss Jami

The Constitution of the United States. It's still the best document of its kind, and written into it are exactly the kind of protections that ensure that no person or group of persons, no matter how diabolical or insane, can hijack the country for much longer than a decade. — John Roderick

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought. — Chloe Wise

You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person. — Eric Idle

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like — Nellie Bly

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family. — J. M. Synge

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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