Mental Instability Quotes

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

The human race consists of the dangerously insane and such as are not.

In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.

I worked with sociopaths and psychopaths in a mental hospital, and in my opinion, Casey Anthony is not emotionally stable.

They've lost their minds.

An undevout astronomer is mad.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.

The more crazy a person is, the more interesting the person is.

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting.

I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

I'm one crazy, crazy guy.

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.