Top 100 Insanity Is Quotes
#1. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Stacy Mantle
#2. I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.
Matt Taibbi
#3. If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)
Brigham Young
#4. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.
Rosellen Brown
#6. Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.
Shannon L. Alder
#7. If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- deliberately blunting our most critical cognitive functions.
- Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
#8. Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.
Siri Hustvedt
#9. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.
Saurabh Sharma
#11. The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.
And only the phoenix lives forever.
Fredric Brown
#12. Is this overwhelming attraction really mutual, or is my believing that just a sign of impending insanity? Is my lunacy on the horizon, or is already here?
Ellen Hopkins
#13. Insanity is something like drowning,' said Sparrow. 'You go under; you flounder without direction;
Frank Herbert
#14. The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.
Evan Currie
#15. What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crisis ... and insanity is the only viable alternative.
Robert Anton Wilson
#17. Or maybe temporary insanity is just an excuse for inexcusable behavior.
Liane Moriarty
#18. Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?
Brom
#20. Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
R.D. Laing
#22. Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids.
Erma Bombeck
#24. Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,
Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,
Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,
Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.
Pushpa Rana
#25. You're caring too much about people, Alice," he says. "Take it from me: sane is mundane, insanity is the new black." I
Cameron Jace
#26. Insanity is a disease, and it is highly contagious.
Emil Ostrovski
#27. Don't you feel more than one thing at a time? That's what insanity is, trying to feel one way. That's why it feels good to go crazy. Or to be addicted. It's so much easier than feeling several things at once. -Miles
Nancy Holder
#28. If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.
Newt Gingrich
#29. I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.
Tony Blankley
#31. The definition of insanity is doing what you've always done and expecting different results.
Jane Green
#32. The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. There is no end. There is no cure. It gets worse with time. Cure. How can you cure an institution, we are bricks crumbling in the walls of despair. Death is inevitable for us all. But the insanity is here to stay.
Stephen Richards
#34. Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.
Luis Marques
#35. If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!
(2012 SCBWI New Member Conference; Richmond, VA)
Brian Rock
#36. The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.
Eugene Ionesco
#38. Insanity is when you keep doing something that does not work
Sunday Adelaja
#39. Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives.
- Clara Bayliss
John Hennessy
#40. Insanity is just a state of mind.
Alan Alda
#41. Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
Aldous Huxley
#42. Insanity is a requirement to live in our house. You know that.
M. Leighton
#43. My insanity is my sanity. I am both, but I am one. If any of this makes sense.
Cameron Jace
#44. The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#45. Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen
Lois Greiman
#46. Our insanity is not that we see people who aren't there. It's that we ignore the ones who are.
Andrea Gibson
#47. I never would have believed that I would be so strong and not lose my head in a situation where the wind of collective insanity is blowing.
Tina Modotti
#48. I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.
Terence McKenna
#50. MOST OF US make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results, and we believe insanity is a problem.
S. Nassir Ghaemi
#51. The thing about insanity is that when you're around it long enough you become part of it.
Marky Ramone
#52. I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Stephen F. Lynch
#53. The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
#54. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#55. Belane, are you nuts?
Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
Charles Bukowski
#56. Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
James Cook
#58. Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.
Lionel Suggs
#59. One Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.
John Fund
#61. The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments.
Lois Greiman
#62. Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.
Douglas Adams
#63. Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
#64. Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.
Caitlin Thomas
#65. The danger of insanity is always present in those who try to penetrate the discipline of logic and pure knowledge.
Otto Weininger
#67. Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." The
Ray Bradbury
#68. For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet
#69. Insanity is for everyone, Sunshine. All the world's peoples may enjoy its glorious bounty.
Amy Fecteau
#71. Take it from me: sane is mundane, insanity is the new black.
Cameron Jace
#73. So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.
Toni Morrison
#74. Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.
Paulo Coelho
#75. Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
Starhawk
#78. Insanity is the most pristine clarity.
A.G. Howard
#79. The only way to survive insanity is to admit it.
Cameron Jace
#80. To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
Eckhart Tolle
#84. Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#86. Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.
Morgan Freeman
#87. The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.
William Harwood
#88. Insanity is the base for Creativity.
Anonymous
#89. One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.
Joyce Carol Oates
#90. But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
Apuleius
#91. The ultimate insanity is to so organize society that power, wealth, and information are concentrated in the hands of so few people that they have the power, for whatever reason, to put to death our species and the living earth as well. But so we have.
Dee Hock
#92. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Narcotics Anonymous
#93. Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it's painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.
Stephen Richards
#94. Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
Dan Barker
#95. Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury
#96. I keep thinking that insanity is a state where a person can't tell what's real. Well, what's real now is insane - and if I accepted it as real, I'd have to lose my mind, wouldn't
Ayn Rand
#97. The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of ...
Lydia Lunch
#99. Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.
Jim Carrey
#100. Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Louis De Bernieres
