Quotes on Insane

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.

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

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.

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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.

But I miss screamin' and fightin'_x000D_ And kissin' in the rain_x000D_ And it's two a.m. and I'm cursin' your name_x000D_ You're so in love that you act insane_x000D_ And that's the way I loved you.

One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

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).

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.