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Insane Person Quotes

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

Dorothea Dix
Insane Person, Gentleman, Cages
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4

If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy.

Alfred Korzybski
Faith, Fall, Insane Person
Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.87, Institute of GS

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

Nora Ephron
Depression, Crazy, Insane Person
"What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present", (p. 320), 1989.

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

Clifford Whittingham Beers
Thinking, Insane Person, People
Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

Bill Hader
Insane Person, World, Favorites Things

If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really.

Dennis Lehane
Fall, Winning, Insane Person

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

Criss Jami
Insane Person, Being Different, Looks
Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.73, Criss Jami

If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what we're used to, but at the same time, it's not senseless ramblings and that's part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didn't get it, but it was sane. It's not some guy raving about UFO's or Moses living in his bathtub, it's was actually something sane that I just didn't get, if that makes sense?

Brad Warner
Talking, Insane Person, Guy
Source: theindiespiritualist.com

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

Nellie Bly
Ideas, Insane Person, Action
Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.7, Nellie Bly

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

Mary Jane Ward
Long Ago, Snakes, Insane Person
Mary Jane Ward (1946). “The snake pit”

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