Insanities Quotes

#1. Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one's insanities.

Coco J. Ginger

#3. Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Elmo found, as have many, that the death of the heart corrupted the pen into writing a farrago of horrors and insanities, not necessarily the less true for their seeming extravagance, but inaccessible for the most part to the prudent.

Robert Aickman

#5. Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Maxine Hong Kingston

#6. What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Walter Scott

#7. The glorious insanities of the English language mean that you can do all sorts of odd and demeaning things to a book. You can cook it.

Mark Forsyth

#8. No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

Mark Twain

#9. Laughter IS the BEST medicine! It's FREE! You can overdose on it! It helps you embrace the insanities of life! It reduces stress, heals your body and relieves pain! It fights disease and cancer and strengthens the immune system! It eases your mind, it protects your heart and soothes your soul!

Tanya Masse

#10. Sometimes, I would have preferred be deaf not to hear negative words and all kinds of insanities.
Sometimes, I would have preferred be blind not to watch certain scenes of everyday life who dishonor humanity.

Joko Ono

#11. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

Tom Robbins

#12. No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Ry Cooder

#13. Scientology helps you lose your insanities. One of the keys is, they say, 'You're in charge of your life, buster. You're responsible for any condition you're in.' If I look at it that way, it helps.

Kirstie Alley

#14. The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Tom Robbins

#16. Bells ringing with no sound
Laughter with no voice
Happiness lost without being found
Making love with no noise

T. Grassan

#17. Us people are much like flowers, We grow, die, wilt, and are unique in our own way.

Me

#18. Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Bill Crawford

#19. Even on the first day we invaded Plover's house we sensed the conundrum that Americans are faced with in England: they're too frightened of English people to behave rudely to them, and too ignorant to know how to behave politely.

Lev Grossman

#20. The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.

Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#21. If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#22. There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

Henri Barbusse

#23. We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

Pedro Martinez

#24. Do not ignore it. Fuck it. Cry your heart out. Then fuck it some more.

Charles Bukowski