139 Insanity Quotes

There's something profoundly captivating about the concept of insanity. It dances on the edge of reason, teetering between brilliance and chaos, offering a unique window into the human psyche. From literary icons and philosophers to modern-day visionaries, many have explored this intricate and often misunderstood aspect of life. In this post, we've curated a collection of the top 139 insanity quotes that delve into madness, creativity, and the fine line that sometimes separates genius from lunacy. Join us as we explore these thought-provoking words and gain insights into the realms where imagination knows no bounds.

1. “Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.” - Bonnie Myotai Treace

2. “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” - Philip K. Dick

3. “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allan Poe

4. “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

5. “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” - Hunter S. Thompson

6. “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” - George Carlin

7. “Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.” - Edgar Allan Poe

8. “The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!” - Salvador Dali

9. “Insanity is catching.” - Terry Pratchett

10. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” - Bruce Feirstein

11. “Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?” - Terry Pratchett

12. “One person's craziness is another person's reality.” - Tim Burton

13. “Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...” - Edgar Allan Poe

14. “There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.” - Zoe Heller

15. “Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.” - William Shakespeare

16. “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” - William Dement

17. “First sign of madness, talking to your own head.” - J.K. Rowling

18. “Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything other than nothing. They decided to give a name to nothingness, and thereby the made it become something. Like you… God, who is nothing, can no longer be nothing since he is God. You could be a god for men. They need to give a body to nothingness so that nothingness can be seen and touched-at least with the imagination.” - Aldo Palazzeschi

19. “I'll take crazy over stupid any day.” - Joss Whedon

20. “Innocence is a kind of insanity” - Graham Greene

21. “When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.” - Hermann Hesse

22. “Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.” - Philip K. Dick

23. “Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?” - Terry Pratchett

24. “The prince of darkness is a gentleman!” - William Shakespeare

25. “Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” - George Eliot

26. “Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms” - Guy de Maupassant

27. “A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.” - Guy de Maupassant

28. “Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.” - Bram Stoker

29. “If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse.And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.” - Blaise Pascal

30. “Where to look if you've lost your mind?” - Bernard Malamud

31. “Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” - Bertrand Russell

32. “I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale."George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete's foot . . .PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose! . . .So many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick. They have taken charge of communications and the schools, so we might as well be Poland under occupation.They might have felt that taking our country into an endless war was simply something decisive to do. What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. They are going to do something every fuckin' day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reasons that they don't give a fuck what happens next. Simply can't. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.” - Kurt Vonnegut

33. “There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.” - Dan Greenberg

34. “Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.” - Ray Bradbury

35. “She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.” - Dakota Cassidy

36. “Belane, are you nuts?"Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?” - Bukowski

37. “I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.” - Vladimir Nabokov

38. “They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.” - Nathaniel Lee

39. “I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.” - Kurt Vonnegut

40. “He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.” - Donald Barthelme

41. “It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.” - Philip José Farmer

42. “One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” - Nikola Tesla

43. “All writers are insane!” - Cornelia Funke

44. “The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

45. “For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.” - Jean Dubuffet

46. “for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.” - Stefan Grabinski

47. “See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.” - Robin McLaurim Williams

48. “Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?” - Louis de Bernières

49. “Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.” - Rebecca McKinsey

50. “Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.” - Susanna Clarke

51. “For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.” - Vera Nazarian

52. “Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.” - Mark Twain

53. “Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.” - Penelope Fitzgerald

54. “Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.” - Emilie Autumn

55. “Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?” - Emilie Autumn

56. “Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.” - Rohinton Mistry

57. “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.” - Douglas Adams

58. “It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone. If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the dream of never dying or of traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits, to declare that this dream was not a feverish trick of the mind but was an actuality at least as real as that other, thinner, more unhappy illusion we call normal life. After all, the intimations of endless love were the same now as they were thousands of years before, while normal life had changed a thousand times and in a thousand different ways. Which then, was more real?” - Scott Spencer

59. “The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.” - Robert Ingersoll

60. “I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.” - William Blake

61. “Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.” - William Shakespeare

62. “You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?”Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, “It’s the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky.”Al’s mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, her expression thoughtful and her fingers finally leaving her knife. “Very true,” she said as she eased back into the cushions.With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy her without compromising myself at all.” - Kim Harrison

63. “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.” - Charles Fisher

64. “Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.” - Anne Fortier

65. “Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there.” - Paulo Coelho

66. “The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.” - Terry Pratchett

67. “Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.” - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

68. “You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.” - Stephen King

69. “No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher” - Henry Ward Beecher

70. “To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)” - Thomas Ligotti

71. “MEMORY'S SO TREACHEROUS. ONE MOMENT YOU'RE LOST IN A CARNIVAL OF DELIGHTS, WITH POIGNANT CHILDHOOD AROMAS , THE FLASHING NEON OF PUBERTY, ALL THAT SENTIMENTAL CANDY-FLOSS ...THE NEXT , IT LEADS YOU SOMEWHERE YOU DON'T WANT TO GO......SOMEWHERE DARK AND COLD, FILLED WITH THE DAMP, AMBIGUOUS SHAPES OF THINKS YOU'D HOPED WERE FORGOTTEN. MEMORIES CAN BE VILE, REPULSIVE LITTLE BRUTES. LIKE CHILDREN, I SUPPOSE. HAHA. BUT CAN WE LIVE WITHOUT THEM? MEMORIES ARE WHAT OUR REASON IS BASED UPON. IF WE CAN'T FACE THEM, WE DENY REASON ITSELF!ALGHOUGH, WHY NOT? WE AREN'T CONTRACTUALLY TIED DOWN TO RATIONALITY! THERE IS NO SANITY CLAUSE! SO WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF LOCKED ONTO AN UNPLEASANT TRAIN OF THOUGHT, HEADING FOR THE PLACES IN YOUR PAST WHERE THE SCREAMING IS UNBEARABLE, REMEMBER THERE'S ALWAYS MADNESS. MADNESS IS THE EMERGENCY EXIT... YOU CAN JUST STEP OUTSIDE, AND CLOSE THE DOOR ON ALL THOSE DREADFUL THINGS THAT HAPPENED. YOU CAN LOCK THEM AWAY... FOREVER.” - Alan Moore

72. “Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.” - Anne Lamott

73. “I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.” - Charles Baudelaire

74. “By all means. Swords have ever been the best servants of crazy men.” - Piers Anthony

75. “When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.” - Daniel Mackler

76. “If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.” - Paulo Coelho

77. “Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.” - Megan Chance

78. “To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.” - Eckhart Tolle

79. “Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.” - G.K. Chesterton

80. “I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.” - William S. Burroughs

81. “This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.” - Terry Pratchett

82. “This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.” - Rene Daumal

83. “How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?” - Dee Remy

84. “The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.” - Dave Chappelle

85. “Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.” - Alyssa Reyans

86. “The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark, evil, and shameful. While it may not have been their intention, this was the message my clouded mind received. To escape the confines of the hospital, I once again disassociated myself from my emotions and numbed myself to the pain ravaging my body and mind. I acted as if nothing was wrong and went back to performing the necessary motions to get me from one day to the next. I existed but I did not live.” - Alyssa Reyans

87. “I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?” - Ellen Hopkins

88. “You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.” - Ashly Lorenzana

89. “After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.” - Mark Vonnegut

90. “It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.” - Mark Vonnegut

91. “Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.” - Julio Cortazar

92. “Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.” - Alison Goodman

93. “I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.” - G.K. Chesterton

94. “Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?” - Jeff Lindsay

95. “One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.” - Anthony Kiedis

96. “Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's undignified.” - N.K. Jemisin

97. “The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.” - William Harwood

98. “That's why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they're nice until they're chaining you up in the garage.” - Michael Buckley

99. “I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and why not? Why stop halfway? Why not just go for it, jump on and ride the wave?” - C.K. Kelly Martin

100. “I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had meant the night before, about the insanity that had gripped him. He was not so far gone as to be lost, but he was close, and I knew it had come from me turning my back on him as I had started to flee. Whether I wanted to or not, I anchored him to this world, and I was the only thing he'd known, maybe for his whole life. He had watched me, yes, he had stalked me, oh yes, but it had driven him to the edge. I inhaled sharply at the wildness I saw in him, the despair that was threatening to rise.” - T.J. Klune

101. “He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. “You’re not crazy. I love you.” - Lauren Hammond

102. “The arguments against insanity fall through with a soft shirring sound;these are the sounds of dead voices on dead recordsfloating down the broken shaft of memory.When I turn to you to ask if you remember,When I turn to you in our bed” - Stephen King

103. “have you taken leave of your senses” - Charles Dickens

104. “Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.” - Robert Mykle

105. “there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

106. “Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!” - Rumi

107. “Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.” - Lauren Hammond

108. “Please don't question the insane glaresJust give me today,And tomorrow,Tomorrowwe will matter.” - Nema Al-Araby

109. “It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.” - Ian McEwan

110. “There is not much left to see in this world if one sees her once.” - Faraaz Kazi

111. “The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.” - Kelli Jae Baeli

112. “You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic.” - Solange nicole

113. “How are you still sane?""Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."Shit.” - Brodi Ashton

114. “Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.” - gellu naum

115. “Nobody's sane above the law.” - Toba Beta

116. “You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.” - Joseph Kesselring

117. “We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?” - G.K. Chesterton

118. “The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée's change of key - to myself, I compared Renée to a sweet melody, a little flat despite its laborious harmonies - was approaching.” - Colette

119. “Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.” - Lionel Suggs

120. “Kyubey: ...Oh, geez. I never would have thought you capable of throwing your friend off a bridge. That wasn't a sane act, Madoka!” - Magica Quartet

121. “Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.” - Christian Baloga

122. “You're bloody insane, Karede," Mat said. "Unfortunately, so am I.” - Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson

123. “Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!” - Terry Pratchett

124. “You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.” - Diana Gabaldon

125. “Don't you just hate it when real life gets in the way of your own reality.” - Menna Anwar

126. “Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.” “Is wanting to be different a serious illness?” “It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. It’s a distortion of nature, it goes against God’s laws, for in all the world’s woods and forests, he did not create a single leaf the same as another. But you think it’s insane to be different, and that’s why you chose to live in Villete, because everyone is different here, and so you appear to be the same as everyone else. Do you understand?” Mari nodded. “People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different, and then the organism starts to produce Vitriol, or bitterness, as this poison is more commonly known.” - Paulo Coelho

127. “Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.” - Susanna Kaysen

128. “That's crazier than a boatload of prostitutes!” - J. Richard Singleton

129. “If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.” - Randy Alcorn

130. “He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.” - Dodie Smith

131. “Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity” - Aldous Huxley

132. “When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.” - Criss Jami

133. “If I was crazy, would I know it? That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.” - Kelley Armstrong

134. “I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.” - Lucy Robinson

135. “He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.” - Brandon Sanderson

136. “Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.” - Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

137. “You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

138. “One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness” - Anne Lamott

139. “Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?” - William Shakespeare