Quotes about crazy
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“It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”

Source: On the Road

“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy… Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.”

Mark Helprin book Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

Happiness, Books, Music, Thinking

“Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

L'homme est bien insensé. Il ne saurait forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux à douzaines.
Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II
Source: The Complete Essays

God

“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”

Joanne Greenberg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Loneliness

“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”

William T. Sherman (1820–1891) American General, businessman, educator, and author.

“Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

Truth, Thinking

“… crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.”

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

World

“I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Thinking

“Human females, they're kind of crazy during this time aren't they?

If you chose to believe the stories written by male writers.

They heard a bang and thump from the kitchen. Followed by Meg yelling at something.

That many males can't be wrong.”

Anne Bishop book Murder of Crows

Source: Murder of Crows

Time

“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Happiness, Feeling, Personality

“The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Truth, Feeling

“Okay, so she is crazy. I don’t care. I think I love her.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

Love, Thinking

“You gotta wonder about someone who would be dumb enough to fallo a person as crazy as him!
wait, I think I just insulted myself
- ganju”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Thinking, Waiting, Personality

“Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy”

Michael Ondaatje book In the Skin of a Lion

Source: In the Skin of a Lion

“God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

God

“I knew you were crazy, but I didn't realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!!”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“… My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?”

Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke

Source: Batman: The Killing Joke

World

“You're Clary Fray. You go charging into every situation without knowing how the hell it's going to turn out, and then you get through it on sheer guts and craziness.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Hell

“I didn't think my day could get any worse until my best friend told me she might be going crazy. Again.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Thinking

“This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

“Being crazy isn't enough.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Variant: Being crazy isn't enough.

“As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.”

Ann Coulter book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

“Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Housing

“This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bitter Blood

Love, People, Stupidity, Thinking

“That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

“What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Love, Feeling

“I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.”

Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

God, Thinking

“I don't talk to myself because I'm crazy."
"No?"
"I do it because I'm awesome.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“She's my baby girl, Quinn. I want love for her. Real love. The kind that makes a man crazy inside.

-Gibraltar to Quinn”

Karen Marie Moning book To Tame a Highland Warrior

Source: To Tame a Highland Warrior

Love, Girl, Baby

“Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: Every Last One

Feeling

“It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that’s all Percy had.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Idea

“you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

You May Be Right.
Song lyrics, Glass Houses (1980)
Context: Now think of all the years you tried to
Find someone to satisfy you.
I might be as crazy as you say.
If I'm crazy then it's true
That it's all because of you
And you wouldn't want me any other way.
You may be right
I may be crazy.
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
It's too late to fight
It's too late to change me.
You may be wrong for all I know
But you may be right.

“Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Women, Fight

“Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

Animals

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Time, Romantic

“Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

Guy

“Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!”

“You don’t win,” Anthony snapped.

“Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me

Feeling

“Cole, who had kissed me. Cole, who had refused to discuss it afterwards. Okay, fine. I had refused. Cole, who was driving me flipping crazy.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Kiss

“I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.”

David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

Thinking

“What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Thinking

“Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Feeling, Suicide

“Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great and now you're just friends. Drives girls crazy. Know what I mean?" Yes. Clary thought. "No." Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Sex, Guy, Girl

“To create art means
to be crazy alone
forever.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Art

“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Star

“When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

Children, People

“I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.”

Ernest Cline (1972) writer

Reality

“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Madness

“If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Way

“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

People, World

“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Source: Phoenix

People, Stupidity, Education, Problem

“Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

“It’s a lost art,” Hank said. “Maybe there’s an instruction manual on it.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 4 (p. 56)

Forgetting

“You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Giant

Shadow of the Giant

Evil

“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

People

“One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Personality

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Time, Heart, Hurt

“It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules.

Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

World, Feeling

“Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don’t care. I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Lie to Katniss about the rebellion so she doesn’t do anything crazy.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 118)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

People, Lie, Lying

“Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Life, Hope, Way

“Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers”

Carlo Collodi book The Adventures of Pinocchio

Source: Pinocchio

People

“Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkov--my more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroi--and another spirit user like Lissa. He'd been crazy about me (and often just crazy) ever since we first met”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

“Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?"
"No"
"No?"
"No.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Perfect Blood

Reality, Time

“We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.”

Clive Barker book Galilee

Source: Galilee

Sadness, Light

“Gavriel closed his eyes, sooty lashes brushing his cheek. "I'll stay with you."

"What? No," she said automatically. "No! That's crazy."

"I'm crazy," he reminded her.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Source: Romance

Love

“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Feeling, Strong

“I know part of what turns me on so hard, makes me so violent with lust, is that he's dangerous. I fell for the bad guy. I'm crazy about the one who's trouble. The alpha that doesn't play well with others and doesn't take orders from anyone.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Guy, Parting

“Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.”

Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner

Age

“I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

People, Feeling

“He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.”

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer

“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Hell

“Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Smile, Beauty

“Your boyfriend's crazy,” he said to Clary.
“Yeah, but he’s hot,” said Clary. “So there’s that.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't,
but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

Flying

“Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Children, Sleep

“When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Source: Dave Barry Turns Fifty

“What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.”

Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Love

“In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.”

Jenna Black (1965) American writer

Source: Shadowspell

“Sage?" Adrian lightly touched my arm, and I jumped at the feel of his fingertips against my skin. "You okay?"
"I don't know," I said softly. "I just thought of something crazy."
"Welcome to my world.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

World, Feeling

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Question

“In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Life

“What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

“I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I…”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Death, God

“I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

“If you’re going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me. Because I can’t be rational when it comes to you. I’m crazy about you. Literally. I can’t think about a future without you— it freaks me out.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Captivated by You

Thinking, Future

“We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

“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”

Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer

Love, Lovers

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Men, Happiness

“But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Love, Appearance

“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Feeling

“My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

God, Way, Painting

“I know that I disagree with many other UML experts, but there is no magic about UML. If you can generate code from a model, then it is programming language. And UML is not a well-designed programming language.
The most important reason is that it lacks a well-defined point of view, partly by intent and partly because of the tyranny of the OMG standardization process that tries to provide everything to everybody. It doesn't have a well-defined underlying set of assumptions about memory, storage, concurrency, or almost anything else. How can you program in such a language?
The fact is that UML and other modelling language are not meant to be executable. The point of models is that they are imprecise and ambiguous. This drove many theoreticians crazy so they tried to make UML "precise", but models are imprecise for a reason: we leave out things that have a small effect so we can concentrate on the things that have big or global effects. That's how it works in physics models: you model the big effect (such as the gravitation from the sun) and then you treat the smaller effects as perturbation to the basic model (such as the effects of the planets on each other). If you tried to solve the entire set of equations directly in full detail, you couldn't do anything.”

James Rumbaugh (1947) Computer scientist, software engineer

James Rumbaugh in Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden eds. (2009) Masterminds of Programming. p. 339; cited in " Quote by James Rumbaugh http://www.ptidej.net/course/cse3009/winter13/resources/james" on ptidej.net. Last updated 2013-04-09 by guehene; Rumbaugh is responding to the question: "What do you think of using UML to generate implementation code?"

Memory, Sun

“Roger: I was super, crazy little! Yeah, like my dad's a guitar player and my uncle was in bands when I was growing up. I sat behind a drum set when I was like six years old. I started taking piano lessons when I was like nine. So, like I've been around music my whole, entire, entire life.”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician

Life, Music

“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

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