Biographies Quote by Abraham Maslow

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

— Abraham Maslow

When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic.

— Amanda Lepore

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

— Sam Levenson

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

— Richard Yates

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

Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world…

— Anne Fortier

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy,…

— John R. Talbott

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

— Anonymous

Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

— Stephen King

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices…

— Andy Garcia

I think it's the complexities of life that make people insane. They have that heightened awareness of these complexities and they just dont know…

— Christina Kelly

I became insane from long intervals of horrible sanity.

— Edgar Allen Poe