Quotes

Insanity Quotes

"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.”
Christine Lavin,

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

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Albert Einstein

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies

"Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
R. D. Lang

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
Johann von Goethe

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

"The judge asked, "What do you plead?" I said, "Insanity, your honor. Who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?""
Steven Wright

“Some are born mad. Some remain so.“
Samuel Beckett

“Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone”
Baltasar Gracian

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe


“Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops.”
Cary Grant

“The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sanity is a madness put to good use.”
George Santayana

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint”
Mark Twain

'Schizophrenic?' No, *WE* prefer the word 'Imaginative...'

A lot of times people ask what the difference is between an insane person and an eccentric........it's really simple.....an eccentric is somebody that knows the difference between crazy and insane, and chooses crazy just because it's more fun.
Chris Kane

Of course I'm sane! The voices told me so.
Michael DeRosa

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts.
G.B. Burgin

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick

"I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet."
Rodney Dangerfield.

Other Quotes

"Operator! Give me the number for 911!"
Homer Simpson

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
Charles Lamb.

"Whoever said 'nothings impossible' never tried to nail jell-o to a tree"
Lisa Bryant

"Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours."
M. Berle.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.
Latin proverb

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
E. E. Cummings

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
Bruce Barton

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

At least I knew who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.
Lewis Carroll

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

*On a tombstone: "I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK"
(Anonymous)

*I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
(Whitney Brown)

Have you ever noticed.... Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin

"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more."
Walter Matthau.

"To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in."
Doris Lilly.

"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist."
Franklin Jones.

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
Spike Milligan.

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
Theodore Roosevelt

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Mark Twain

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
Mario Andretti

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
Helen Keller

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
Edgar Watson Howe

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"They say love is around every corner. I must be walking in circles."
Author Unknown

"The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it."
Helen Keller

"I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate."
George Burns

"Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient."
Author Unknown

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Theodor Seuss Geisel


Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank

Friends are the ones who lift us from our feet when our wings forget how to fly.

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Mark Twain

"No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one."

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
-Theodore Rubin

"Good questions outrank easy answers."
-Paul A. Samuelson

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
-Michael Konda

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
-Mark Twain

And most importantly...

"It's always too early to quit."
-Norman Vincent Peale

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination"
Mark Twain

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
Helen Kelller

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly