Insanity Humor Quotes & Sayings

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! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Pulaski had never been one for the overwrought plot; any entanglement he could imagine between these two lines of evidence was willful to the point of insanity. — Garth Risk Hallberg

All writers are insane! — Cornelia Funke

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity. — John Kennedy Toole

Just because I'm insane doesn't mean I have to act all crazy. — Diana Rowland

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

(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am. — William Shakespeare

You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic. — Solange Nicole

Temporary Insanity had come a-knocking and I had shouted "Come on in the door is open." Luckily, Reality had come unexpectedly and found Temporary Insanity roaming the corridors of my mind unchecked, going into rooms, opening cupboards, reading my letters, looking in my underwear drawer, that kind of thing. Reality had run and got Sanity. And after a tussle, they both had managed to throw out Temporary Insanity and slam the door in his face. Temporary Insanity now lay on the gravel in the driveway of my mind, panting and furious, shouting, "She invited me in, you know. She asked me in. She wanted me there. — Marian Keyes

This damn ring had derailed her life. No wonder Gollum had gone insane. — Karina Bliss

Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes its time, and gets to know everyone personally. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip. — Terry Pratchett

Sweetie, you don't need to drive me to the brink of insanity ... I'm close enough to walk! — Tanya Masse

Your hair is like butterflies," Sebastian said, giggling like a child.
"That's nice," Firen said impatiently. "Keep moving."
"Fantastic. I always like my days better with a touch of insanity," Gabriella quipped. — Laura Kreitzer

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity. — Dakota Cassidy

How many of us are there?" he demanded in a less than amused tone.
"Legions, surely, don't you think it must be so?"
"How can you joke about even this?" he asked, anger evident in his voice. A rarity that he expressed it, or any other emotion, for that matter. Of course, that didn't mean the emotions weren't there, and I'd experienced every one he'd refused to show.
"Don't knock what you haven't tried, Michel. Trust me when I say my regular routine of self-amusement is a much better prophylactic against insanity than your grueling regimen of nightly self-flogging. — Krisi Keley

Poetry is the purest form of insanity. — Augusta Jane Evans

So what did you want to talk to Wesley about?" he asked me.
"Kelly likes him," I said. "So I figured while we were discussing Lady Macbeth's insanity and Duncan's murder, I could, you know, casually find out if he likes her too."
Colton didn't blink. "He likes her."
"He does? How do you know?"
He shrugged like it was a silly question. "We talk sometimes. He told me on the drive over he hoped she would be here."
"Then why hasn't he ever asked her out?"
"He's shy. And we're in the middle of wrestling season, midterms, and Christmas." Colton picked up the liter of soda. "Have a little patience."
I reached for the bowl of popcorn, but didn't start out of the kitchen yet. "Well can I hurry him along? Is there any chance he'll ask her out before this weekend?"
Colton shook his head at me, then walked toward the living room. "You're not quite grasping the nature of patience, Charlotte. — Janette Rallison

I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me. — Shannon L. Alder

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result. — Jeanette Winterson

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. — Brandon Sanderson

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. — Ian Frazier

She had only two modes of operation: complete control or complete insanity. — Ilona Andrews

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept. — George Carlin

A cute nickname was the first mile marker on Gag Highway, heading straight to Relationshipville. And making up the names of fake roads and cities to express your unhappiness was probably the first step to insanity. — Emma Mills

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy. — Johnny Carson

You're kidding," Shane said. "Do you think I want to visit Crazy McTeeth in his lair of insanity?"
"No," Claire said, "but I'm pretty sure you won't like it if I go alone when I just kind of promised to be with you. So ... ?"
"Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway."
"Stop making up names for him."
"What about Count Crackula?"
"Just stop. — Rachel Caine

Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset. — Jaroslav Hasek

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely. — Paulo Coelho

Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose ... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win — Josh Stern

Ridcully sighed.
'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's playing silly buggers?'
The other senior wizards stared at him.
'I, I, I don't think we can play it any more,' said the Bursar, who at the moment was only occasionally bouncing off the sides of sanity, 'I, I, I think we lost some of the pieces ... — Terry Pratchett

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. — Jim Butcher

We're authors. We're more than a little unstable. — Megan Linski

I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States - and elsewhere. — Tina Fey

They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me. — Nathaniel Lee

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane — Wallace Thurman

The Law of Logical Insanity: Anything that can easily be explained using common sense and rational thought is probably too simplistic and therefore false and untrue. — Ian Strang

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane. — Robin McLaurin Williams

The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself.
"The second sign of madness," I explain.
"What's the first one?"
"Killing lots of people and eating their genitals."
He laughs and sneaks another look at me. — Michael Robotham

I could not imagine the kind of person that would, upon seeing a crazy talcum-powder-covered Southern lady think to herself, Hmmmm, she might make a great new friend. The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. — Augusten Burroughs

Why Dream?
Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of energy. Most things are out of our control. We are surrounded by danger, frustration, grief, and insanity as well as love, hope, ecstasy, and wonder. Being fully human is an exercise in humility, suffering, grace, and great humor. Things and people all around us die, get broken, or are lost. There is no safety or guarantees.
The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams. — SARK

Loving someone is very different from the heady feeling of being "in love," which is, frankly, just temporary insanity. — Barton Goldsmith

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you. — Rita Mae Brown

The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments. — Lois Greiman

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane? — Terry Pratchett

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what. — Carol Piner

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times. — Mort Sahl

To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it. — Marissa Meyer

She thought of Robbie at dinner when there had been something manic and glazed in his look. Might he be smoking the reefers she had read about in a magazine, these cigarettes that drove young men of bohemian inclination across the borders of insanity? — Ian McEwan

MOMB - noun - One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM ... Because she's the BOMB! — Tanya Masse

There's a fine line between stuff, and if you stare at it long enough it'll drive you insane or to genius — Josh Stern

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen. — Rebecca McKinsey

Right. But believing two opposite things at once is also called 'insanity.' You saying you're an exception to the rule? — Unknown

Any other brushes with insanity you haven't thought to mention? — Alethea Kontis

Years of insanity have made this guy crazy! — Woody Allen

Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity. — Skyla Madi

One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day
I cannot recall for the moment how many
made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory. However, there you are. I've given you the main idea of the thing; and a German doctor says that early rising causes insanity. — P.G. Wodehouse

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person. — Criss Jami

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long. — Libba Bray

I know all about insanity. It's not that bad once you beat up everyone who teases you about it. — Eve Langlais

For just a second, Lauren wonders if she's going insane. But insane people don't think they're insane, everybody knows that. But...since that fact of insanity is common knowledge, doesn't that mean an insane person could use it to convince themselves they're not actually insane? Wouldn't that make them even more insane? — Patrick Anderson Jr.

Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen — Lois Greiman

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities. — Walter Scott

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! — Terry Pratchett

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. — Vernor Vinge

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here. — Terry Pratchett

Did god make man too perfect,
So that a piece has to be removed
through circumcision? — A.J. Beirens

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. — Joseph Kesselring

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. — James Lee Burke

We've eaten, but he looks hungry, and experience tells me that crazy takes a lot of calories to sustain. — Emil Ostrovski

Insanity is refusal to stay in the present as other people experience it. You see, insanity is really like getting caught in a time warp. You can't find your way out. So at some point, people make a decision that they'd rather be with the insanity as others have defined it, then to play in the game that most other people have accepted as reality. — Art Hochberg

The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane do the exact same things, without a valid excuse. This is the great equalizer of God and his little gift for all us crazy people to enjoy. — Shannon L. Alder

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. — Christopher Moore

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. — Narcotics Anonymous

There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity — Josh Stern

Once I faced a female with diamond skin," Nix said breathlessly. "I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me."
"Really?"
" No, I saw that character on X men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses."
"Except your insanity," Lucia pointed out.
sigh. "Well played, Archer. then carry on ... — Kresley Cole