Richelle Mead Quotes

There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

And how do you know that you're mad?

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

If you went crazy, would you know it?

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have Mencheres break out the invisible straitjacket again. I haven't gone crazy. I just didn't understand until now." He still looked like he was debating having Mencheres lay the power whammy on me, so I sat down by Kira in a very deliberate manner, folding my hands in my lap. There. Didn't I look calm and sane?

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.