All Quotes By Tag: Insanity

“God’s creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

“What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!”

“Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.”

“Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying “no” to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.”

“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.”

“This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.”

“Whenever I think of something but can’t think of what it was I was thinking of, I can’t stop thinking until I think I’m thinking of it again. I think I think too much.”

“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: ‘This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”

“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”

“People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN’T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”

“Do you think it’s possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

“I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.”