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1 " Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives "
― John Lennon
2 " Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world. "
― Shannon L. Alder
3 " 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. "
4 " Insane people give me hope." " What!!!!" I almost dropped my beer." The insane have decided to stay on," Crumley said. " They love life so much that, rather than destroy it, they go behind a self-made wall to hide. Pretend not to hear, but the do hear. Pretend not to see, but see. Insanity says: I hate living but love life. Hate the rules but do like me. So, rather than drop in graves, I hide out. Not in liquor, nor in bed under sheets, nor in a needle's prick or snuffs of white powder, but in madness. On my own shelf, in my own rafters, under my own silent roof. So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sand and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness. "
5 " You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. " They are just sane people who know too much. "
6 " So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness. "
― Ray Bradbury , A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities (Crumley Mysteries, #2)
7 " 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. , Quarter Life Crisis
8 " And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are " happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of " happy nuts." (p. 200) "
