14 Metaphors for insanity

"Insanity is a queer thing," he went on, still brooding into the light.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Insanity, in the broad sense, is involuntary error in a nature incapable of effectual enlightenment, and hence abnormal or diseased; but the state of error, whether more or less, whether voluntary or involuntary, whether curable or incurable, in itself is the same.

Elvesham was, of course, a profound student of mental science, and all my declarations of the facts of the case merely confirm the theory that my insanity is the outcome of overmuch brooding upon psychology.

Dr. Willis defined, in remarkable accordance with this case in Rasselas, insanity to be the tendency of a mind to cherish one idea, or one set of ideas, to the exclusion of others.

INSANITY, 212.Insanity, a vitiated state of the mind, is a legitimate cause of separation, 252, 470.

Actual insanity need not be the only manifestation.

"Insanity," was the monotoned response of the statue on horseback.

their insanity was their own fault.

At the dawn of the 19th century, the physician Hernroth still wrote that insanity was a moral sin of the insane, because "no one becomes insane, unless he forsakes the straight path of virtue and of the fear of the Lord.

Insanity, for aught I know, must be my lot if she should die.

Insanity is the only reason I can see for his conduct.

Under the law as generally laid down, insanity is a defense to crime when the insanity is so far advanced as to blot out and obliterate the sense of right and wrong or render the accused unable to choose the right and avoid the wrong.

" He used to say this with an ambiguous smile in which were equally mingled his contempt for useless idealism and his respect for the artista respect similar to the veneration that the Arabs feel for the demented, believing their insanity to be a gift from God.

14 Metaphors for  insanity