(251 quotes found)
“When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”
Hermann Hesse
“Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.”
Albert Camus
“Genius is one of the many forms of insanity”
Cesare Lombroso
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
J. D. Salinger
“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.”
Marilyn French
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
George Orwell
“LOOK You see, The Cliffs of Insanity, Hurry up move the thing, and, and that other thing, MOVE IT”
The Princess Bride
“Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're going to like it. There'll be some more when you come down.”
Alice Cooper
“Insanity - It's difficult to comprehend how insane some people can be. Especially when you're insane.”
Larry Kersten