A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
You people are all insane. How I ended up with you, I'll never know." Breeze laughed. "Now, that's a lie, Cett. You know exactly how you ended up joining with us. We threatened to kill you if you didn't!
The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
I always think that people who are - maybe 'insane' is too strong a word, but there's more of a spiritual connection. Sometimes they can see below the surface.
[Wendy Davis is] ruled by a demon of murder.
Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.
Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.
We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.
The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.
Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.
Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.
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.
I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.
For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.
Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.
How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.
Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
Another of the things we saw, doing honor to the Sultan, was the hospital [maristan] in the city of Cairo. It is a palace, goodly for its beauty and spaciousness. This benefaction he made so that he might deserve a heavenly reward, and to acquire merit [in the next world]. He appointed as an intendant a man of science with whom he placed a store of drugs and whom he empowered to use the potions and apply them in various forms. In the rooms of this palace were placed beds, fully appointed, for bedridden patients. At the disposal of the intendant are servants whose duty it is, morning and evening, to examine the conditions of the sick, and to bring them food and potions that benefit them. Facing this establishment is another specially for women, and they also have persons to attend them. A third which adjoins them, a large place, has rooms with iron windows, and it has been taken as a place of confinement for the insane. They also have persons who daily examine their condition and give them what is fitting for them.
Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to 'Nam or having an extended acid trip. Turns out - legend has it - he just had some bad cheese.
Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.