Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

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.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Were it not for Scientology, I would either be completely insane or dead by now.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.

Are — you — insane?” said Hermione in a hushed voice. 'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging.

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.

To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.

You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.