Insane Quotes
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Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
Jacques Lacan
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
Joseph Heller
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Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
Erving Goffman
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They leaped and laughed and danced like insane men, and we had much ado to prevent them seizing us in their arms and rubbing noses with us.
R. M. Ballantyne
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What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.
Barnett Newman
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Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.
Ellie Goulding
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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
Diana Ross
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Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
Leon Uris
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I'm insane, not forgetful.
Rachel Caine
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Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane.
Emily Dickinson
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Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
E. F. Schumacher
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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
William R. Alger
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North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'
Conan O'Brien
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“It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.”
David Rosenhan
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
Tom Lehrer
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In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.
Rachel Caine
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Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
S. S. Van Dine
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It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."
Babatunde Adebimpe
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.
Drew Carey
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If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
Alistair Cooke
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Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
Jasper Fforde
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Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.
Stevie Jackson Belle and Sebastian