96+ Best Crazy People Quotes: Exclusive Selection

The word “crazy” is often used, but what does it really mean and when should you apply it? Profoundly inspirational crazy people quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Crazy People Quotes

Sane is boring. R. A. Salvatore

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. Stephen Hawking

Being crazy isn’t enough. Dr. Seuss

The thing about crazy people; they don’t know they are crazy, that’s what make them crazy. Jim Jefferies

Some may never live, but the crazy never die. Hunter S. Thompson

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. Ray Bradbury

Crazy people don’t sit around wondering if they’re nuts. Jake Gyllenhaal

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. Walter Isaacson

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. Haruki Murakami

Life it too short to deal with crazy people. Karen E. Quinones Miller

The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive. Dave Chappelle

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K. Le Guin

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. Charles Bukowski

Sometimes it’s the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy. Kevin Spacey

Come on, let’s go. Crazy people do crazy things. Paulo Coelho

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. Sigmund Freud

Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand. Seungsahn

Is it so far from madness to wisdom? George R. R. Martin,

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

I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid. Jackie Chan

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn’t understood. Weihui Zhou

It’s okay to be crazy, but don’t be insane. Sean Combs

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts. Dolly Parton

On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat. Remedios Varo

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane. Mark Twain

Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. Robert Anton Wilson

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. Michael J. Gelb

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live. Charles Bukowski

Crazy people don’t sit around wondering if they’re nuts. Jake Gyllenhaal

If  you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it, or else you’re going to be locked up. Hunter S. Thompson

I’m quite mad by nature, and it’s my craziness that has saved me from extinction. Marco Pantani

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy, and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too. Rodney Dangerfield

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. Susanna Kaysen

Here’s all you have to know about men and women women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. George Carlin

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth E. Boulding

Sometimes a crazy idea can make something special. Cory Barlog

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It’s the last stop on the nutso express. Zadie Smith

Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. Jim Hightower

If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion. Maxine Waters

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas. Gioconda Belli

You’re crazy, said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back at school. They said that about all the great visionaries. You know who else they said it about? Angela demanded. All the actual crazy people. Sarah Rees Brennan

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. Bertolt Brecht

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god. Anthony Hopkins

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there’s no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let’s go. Jeff Bridges

That’s why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they’re nice until they’re chaining you up in the garage. Michael Buckley

I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life. Ann Makosinski

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Believe me. Nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I’d like my whole life to be one single crazy idea. Milan Kundera

I don’t think I’ve played a lot of crazy people. If ever I had a choice between two movies, I’d try to do whatever was the opposite of what I did last time. Melanie Lynskey

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. Nathan Myhrvold

I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they’re the good guys really helped. Casper Crump

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas, the world would have been more stupid. Arsene Wenger

Lets be honest, L.A. is not a bad place to live. There are some crazy people there, but I tend to get on with them! Eve Myles

Initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible. Wayne Dyer

There’s nothing better than being in an asylum, if you’re going to have a bunch of crazy people in an asylum, and they’re all beautiful Hollywood actresses. John Carpenter

We live in a crazy world. You don’t know what’s going to happen. August Alsina

The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people’s. I see what he means, and because I’ve learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that’s always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained. Claire Messud

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. Henry Miller

There’s still always the possibility that I’ve gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don’t think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don’t worry about being crazy that’s the whole problem. Lauren Oliver

This crazy world that looks like a lot of fun is also really stressful and crazy at times. Kevin Jonas

If you’re any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people. Carl Andre

I’ve never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself. Errol Morris

I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they’re A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is. M. Night Shyamalan

If you dance alone on the streets, people might call you crazy, but when so many people dance together, it’s a party. Nia Sharma

You gotta remember we’re musicians we’re just crazy people who can’t get along sometimes. I’ve definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It’s part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it we’re lucky we don’t eat each other in this industry! Corey Taylor

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Nora Ephron

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. Dale Jamieson

Of course, there have been times when I’ve done crazy things. But I don’t think I’m crazy. I just grew up in a crazy world. Metta World Peace

Since my mother is the type that’s called schizophrenogenic in the literatüre she’s the one who makes crazy people, crazy children I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane. Abraham Maslow

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly, complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. David Remnick

Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith based initiative. Bill Maher

Even though I’m often crazy and I am, and I know it still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak. Nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail. Anne Sexton

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people. John Dunning

It’s unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy. Shirley Manson

All singers must be crazy. But we’re a nice family of crazy people Joan Sutherland

I’m too old to do crazy things anymore. Rick James

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. Katherine Paterson

I’m weird, I do crazy things, it’s not like the average norm. Timbaland

A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight and when they come out, they’re gay. Benjamin Carson

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things. Steven Adler

I like to play smart, three dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people. Lili Taylor

There’s so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world. Michael C. Hall

The conviction I will not tolerate this age. The freedom the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things. Walker Percy

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I’d have gone crazy long ago. Phylicia Rashad

I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, Well, was I really crazy? And he nodded and said, You were but not any more. Mickey Rourke

I used to irritate people. I’d give them a hard time, and when it drove them crazy, that was funny to me. Charlie Murphy

I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don’t know if I ever quite perfected it. Alison Brie

The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward. Nick Cummins

The truth is, I don’t have any problem with journalists I count some of them as friends also some of my heroes are journalists, I’m a big fan of Robert Fisk great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what’s right. Daniel Craig

You can drive yourself crazy and tie yourself in knots trying to anticipate what someone’s going to like or not like. But pay too much mind to that, and you’ll wind up with a big pile of mush. Kevin Feige

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you’re at their mercy; it’s a rule. Laurell K. Hamilton

All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We’ve spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair. Marshall Goldsmith

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. Stephen King