Insanity - Quotes

At one time, people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now ... you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard. - Ken Kesey

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves. - Dan Simmons

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

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. - Mark Twain

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. - Philip K. Dick

It's hard to guess what a lunatic will do next. - Cassandra Clare

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. - Philip K. Dick

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. - Hunter S. Thompson

The real difference between men is not sanity and insantiy, but more or less insanity. - Austin O’Malley

We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know. - Mariah Carey

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. Like Robinson Crusoe's discovery of footprints on the sand. - Robert M Pirsig