Insanity Quotes

 

 

 

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

-Edgar Allen Poe

 

 

 

Insanity doesn’t run in my family.  It gallops.

-Cary Grant

 

 

 

Be patient, my soul, thou has suffered worse than this.

-Homer

  

 

 

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by the inmates

might be worth publicizing. 

-George Christopher Lichtenberg

 

 

 

A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. 

A psychotic is the man who lives in it. 

And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

-Anonymous

  

 

 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

-Ambrose Bierce

 

 

 

One can make the insane believe anything,

just because they are receptive to everything.

-August Strindberg

 

 

 

God gives us the nuts, but he does not crack them.

-German Proverb

 

 

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.

-Nathaniel Lee

 

 

 

Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful

as that of the human mind in ruins.

-Scrope Davies

  

 

 

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering

from some sort of mental illness.  Think of you three best friends. 

If they are okay, then it’s you!

-Rita Mae Brown

 

 

  

 

Only the insane have strength enough to survive. 

Only the survivors determine what is sane.

-Unknown Source

 

 

 

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,

starving, hysterical, naked.

-Allen Ginsberg

 

 

 

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses.  Crazy people who are rich are eccentric.

Crazy people who are neither productive or rich are just plain crazy.

 Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, and crazy people drown.  Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. 

Take a chance and get your feet wet. 

-Micheal Geib

 

 

The insane, on occasion,

are not without their charms.

-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

 

 

 

For those whom God to ruin has designed

He fits for fate and first destroys their mind.

-John Dryden

 

 

 

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.

-William Shakespeare

 

 

 

It shall be so.  Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

-William Shakespeare

 

  

 

Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

-Unknown author

 

 

 

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

-Yevgeny Yevtushenko

 

 

 

77 Percent of the mentally ill live in poverty. 

Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23% who are apparently

doing quite well for themselves.

-Jerry Garcia

 

 

 

 

Years ago, it meant something to be crazy,

Now everyone’s crazy.

-Charles Manson

 

 

 

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk,

and now we stand by each other.

-General William T. Sherman