Insanity is the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.

1. I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.
Tibor Kalman

2. 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
Hunter S. Thompson

3. Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

4. The prospect of insanity Is more appealing Then we would like to admit.
Kenneth Nate

5. For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. Jean Dubuffet

6. I want someone who knows how completely insane I am, yet wouldn't want it any other way
Anonymous

7. I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Edgar Allan Poe

8. DON'T AVOID INSANITY JOIN ME IT'S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU'LL EVER DO
Anonymous

9. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

10. Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller

11. Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it. John Lennon
Anonymous

12. We don't just call INSANITY because these workouts are intense. We call it INSANITY because in 60 days, you're going to get results that are simply crazy. But don’t open this box thinking you can pretend your way through this….
Anonymous

13. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse

14. The wisdom of insecurity.' This is the ability to flow with the changes, to see everything as a process of change, to relax with uncertainty.
Jack Kornfield

15. Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.
Alan Dershowitz

16. A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
Franz Kafka

17. I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it
Anonymous

18. I do not oppose the insane asylum—but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.
Eugene V. Debs

19. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant

20. If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too. Suzanne Collins

21. Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring
Anonymous

22. Insanity doesn't run in my family. It strolls through, taking it's time, getting to know each one of us personally
Anonymous

23. Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.
Edward Hyde

24. I'm crazy. I'll own that. But I'm worth it. There's a method to my insanity
Anonymous

25. Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.
Caitlin Thomas

26. I'd rather be insane than live in your sanity
Anonymous

27. The purest form of insanity is to leave everything the same and the same time hope that things will change. Albert Einstein

28. The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

29. Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm1.
Charles Bukowski

30. It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick

31. All these thoughts are driving me insane
Anonymous

32. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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33. You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Henry Rollins

34. No great mind ever existed without a touch of madness
Anonymous

35. Anyway, madness and genius. They’re the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
Deb Caletti

36. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

37. I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud

38. Only, as long as were going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value. S. S. Van Dine
S. S. Van Dine

39. You’ve been on the edge of insanity your entire life, haven’t you? So many people called you crazy you actually started to believe it. You wondered if they were right. You wondered if you could fix it. You though if you could just try a little harder, be a little better, smarter, nicer – you thought the world would change its mind about you. You blamed yourself for everything.
Tahereh Mafi

40. Madness and insanity are two terms that are so vague and relative that you can’t really apportion proper values to them. The only thing I can think of that has any use it functional and dysfunctional. Are you working as well? In which case, it doesn’t matter if you are mad.
Alan Moore

41. We don't just embrace INSANITY here. We feel it up, french kiss it and then buy it a drink
Anonymous

42. Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
Ambrose Bierce

43. There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca

44. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person–it only adds the burden of panic. Guillermo del Toro

45. I don't suffer from my insanity — I enjoy every minute of it.
Sherrilyn Kenyon

46. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line
Anonymous

47. Sane is the insanity most call normality put forth by society.
Erik Till

48. STRANGERS think I'm quiet. MY FRIENDS think I'm outgoing. MY BEST FRIENDS know that I'm completely insane
Anonymous

49. The difference between insanity and genius is your level of success. The impossible is always crazy until you do it
Anonymous

50. Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it
Anonymous

51. Insane is such a mean word. I prefer…mentally creative
Anonymous

52. If you have never lost your sanity, then you have never been in love
Anonymous

53. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody
Jack Kerouac

54. I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy every minute of it
Anonymous

55. Insanity is just a synonym for imagination
Anonymous

56. The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

57. Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury

58. One person's craziness is another person's reality.
Tim Burton

59. Insanity is the definition of fun
Anonymous

60. I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Po

61. I'm not crazy, I'm just creatively insane
Anonymous

62. Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Anonymous

63. I smile because you've all finally driven me insane
Anonymous

64. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
George Orwell