Council Quote by Rachel Vincent

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep…

— Nellie Bly

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

— Susanna Kaysen

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

— Jonathan Franzen

I plead contemporary insanity.

— Anonymous

In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't…

— Frederick Lenz

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

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

— Sam Levenson

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison…

— Mark Twain

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

— Marshall McLuhan

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different…

— Stephen F. Lynch

I became insane from long intervals of horrible sanity.

— Edgar Allen Poe

Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children

— Sam Levenson