Quotes on Insane

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

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

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.

Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.