Quotes about crazy

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“But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.”

“I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.”

“Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?”

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy”

“Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.”

“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

“Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others…
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

“It was a matter of perspective, I began to see.
The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist."
-- Dolores Price”

“There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.”

“if you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”

“Bein Crazy
is the least of my worries.”

“He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”

“Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?”

“My friends are gone and my hair is grey.
I ache in places I used to play.
And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on.
I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.”

“This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight”

“I'm never going to get married."
"You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind."
"No. My mind's made up.”

“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.”

“Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.”

“You're crazy, you know that?"
"Yes. But I'm a demon in the sack."
I laughed. "Okay then. That fixes everything."
"That's right, it does.”

“The crazy people of the world… shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.”

“Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid”

“ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED.
He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.”

“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”

“She looked at him with loathing. "I knew you were crazy," she said. "But I didn't realize you were absolutely, spectactularly out of your goddamned mind.”

“Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.”

“We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.”

“You won’t let me buy any clothes. Now you won’t let me buy a road map, either!
I need to spend some money or I’m going to go crazy!”

“The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.”

“I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.”

“I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.”

“The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.”

“… you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.”

“I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?”

“Life it too short to deal with crazy people.”

“I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.”

“He stepped back and threw his arms out.
"I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you."
He tipped his head back and shouted to the sky:
"Rose is in red
But never in blue
Sharp as a thorn
Fights like one too.”

“Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.”

“It's like my whole life never happened,
When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought.
I know this dream, it might be crazy,
But it's the only one I've got.”

“Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.”

“I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"
I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?"
He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?”

“But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.”

“I'm a substitute mom."
"You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.”

“Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you….”

“One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy”

“Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.”

“They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?”

“It's just a crazy damned life, that's all…”

“What we don't let out traps us. We think, "No one else feels this way, I must be crazy." So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. "Why do I feel this way? Last week, I was on top of the world and now my feelings don't make sense." Voicing it, getting it out and letting it other people hear it, helps to dissipate it. The fears and self-criticisms begin to leak. And we begin to heal.”

“Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.”

“Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.”

“Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.”

“I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.”

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”

“They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up-But then one goes insane from giving up.”

“You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised.
"Yes."
"That's… crazy, Sookie.”

“Mama--Mama--I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy…”

“You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.”

“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”

“He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly.

"I'm not crazy," I whispered.

"I know."

Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me.

And I kind of loved him for it.”

“As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.”

“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”

“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

“That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.”

“I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he’d go crazy if he didn’t and had nearly waited too”

“When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you.
This is crazy.
I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.”

“Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”

“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.”

“I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.”

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

“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

“Look, I'll fight, too. What do you think it is? Bear, coyote…?"
"My brother."
"Your…" Dismay pooled in Mark. She'd just stepped over the line of acceptable craziness. "Oh.”

“Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?”

“You cannot figure out crazy. Just keep smiling and nodding.”

“Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on?
Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line.
Jamie: OK…
Landon: You're in two places at once.”

“Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?”
I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes.
“Crazy.” His voice was a whisper against my skin. “I went crazy.”

“Always be classy. Never be crazy.”

“Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.”

“By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.
Hey, no one said high school was easy.”

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”

“Who's Myrnin?"
Claire controlled an urge to roll her eyes. "Badass crazy vampire scientist who's my boss."
"You realize no part of that sentence made sense, right?”

“You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.”

“People who are crazy rarely question whether they're crazy.”

“No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.”

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

“The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think theyare crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.”

“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”

“Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.”

“I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.”

“you can’t explain crazy.”

“Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.”

“Thank God even crazy dreams come true”

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”

“But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.”
“Already crazy about you, Sage.”

“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

“Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.”

“You know how it is - some hot guys don't make your hormones go crazy, while some unattractive guys have massive sex appeal. This guy had it all.”

“You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.”