Top 100 Quotes About Insanity
#1. For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion.
Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.
Robert Sheckley
#2. She thought of Robbie at dinner when there had been something manic and glazed in his look. Might he be smoking the reefers she had read about in a magazine, these cigarettes that drove young men of bohemian inclination across the borders of insanity?
Ian McEwan
#3. So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it "evil." It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#4. Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.
Hannah Arendt
#7. If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.
Jacque Fresco
#8. Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.
Gregory Bateson
#9. I am drunk with the beauty of life, I am at the verge of insanity. Every moment is a pearl of my life, so I have to enjoy every one of them.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Everything she had read in the diaries described a creature whose mind was so broken , so incapable of love in the way she understood those concepts, that any attempt to predict its behavior was an exercise in insanity.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#12. Take it from me: sane is mundane, insanity is the new black.
Cameron Jace
#13. Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life.
Bhaskaryya Deka
#14. To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
Jann Wenner
#15. Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.
Dane Cook
#16. Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication ... I call that line commitment
Jeremy Aldana
#18. The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
Errol Morris
#19. There is nothing quite so terrifying as the descension of the human mind into insanity.
Courtney Cole
#20. Any other brushes with insanity you haven't thought to mention?
Alethea Kontis
#21. Oh, the naivety of humanity, and insanity of the understanding.
But if the world understood, would the stupid be considered sane?
Larul Andrews
#22. If our love's tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?
Terry Goodkind
#23. To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity. The
Hannah Arendt
#24. We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.
Mark Twain
#25. That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.
Mike Carey
#26. I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'
Si Robertson
#27. If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. Insanity
a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R.D. Laing
#29. But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.
Chelsey Philpot
#30. So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.
Toni Morrison
#31. Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.
Arundhati Roy
#32. Religion is insanity by consensus.
Bill Maher
#33. There is this place of insanity that lives deep inside everyone.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#34. Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.
Paulo Coelho
#35. Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed "good qualities" in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and by loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.
Leo Tolstoy
#36. writers to explicitly posit that the Joker embraces the chaos of insanity and death, while the Batman instead channels his pain into an endless crusade to impose order.
Glen Weldon
#38. Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
Charles Kettering
#39. Humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.
Isaac Asimov
#40. I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.
Alex Hirsch
#42. As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels looked like torment and insanity, I collected some proverbs
William Blake
#43. People are foolish and bad, especially the French, and are always quickly seduced by power into insanity, and therefore lucky to have any kind of social order whatsoever, but the tougher the better.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#44. Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.
Starhawk
#45. Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.
Joseph Murphy
#46. To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
Anais Nin
#47. Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
Thomas Jefferson
#48. What was the definition of insanity? Repeating the same action and expecting different results?
Kathy Reichs
#50. I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
Fergie
#51. Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man.
James Dashner
#52. And the proof of his insanity? His belief that the U.S. government was a repressive conspiracy that muzzled radical opinion. Only an insane person would believe that! The Unabomber had really, really liked Leila.
Jonathan Franzen
#53. It wasn't in the states best interest to let the jury know, they said it would raise doubt that John Gacy acted alone. The defence attorneys didn't bring it out because it didn't have..it didn't go along with their insanity defence, showing others were involved.
John Wayne Gacy
#54. We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?
Francesca Lia Block
#55. Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
Flula Borg
#56. I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.
Bob Dylan
#57. We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
Alain De Botton
#58. I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
Penn Jillette
#59. Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.
Henry David Thoreau
#60. Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity.
Michael Faudet
#61. Avery McTavish - The Last Boyfriend
Insanity ... She knew how to organize and stay that way. But it seemed to her all her organization skills arrowed toward work and missed her life by a mile.
Nora Roberts
#63. The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.
Masashi Kishimoto
#64. Pacing around my apartment overwhelmed with thought. Inspiration can be a bitter-sweet combination of fantastic insanity.
12:08am - May 14, 2013
Ryan Tyler Palmer
#66. I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.
M.F. Moonzajer
#67. The Experiment is the Experiment." For all its contemptuous insanity, the idea still seemed to have some kind of rational kernel to it.
Arkady Strugatsky
#68. Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.
M.F. Moonzajer
#69. The big problem, again, wasn't insanity, but that people's brains were much too big and untruthful to be practical.
Kurt Vonnegut
#70. Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#72. I stood balanced on the brink of madness. Insanity and longevity are a truly terrifying combination; if I gave in now, I might pay the price for centuries to come.
C.S. Friedman
#75. The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
Andrew Young
#76. To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
Eckhart Tolle
#77. Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.
Scott Adams
#78. May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.
Lewis Carroll
#79. If most people owned up to their own insanity maybe the rest of the world would be diagnosed with sanity and we would lock them up for not fitting into our society.
Thatcher C. Nalley
#80. In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.
Eileen Miller
#81. You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.
Mango Wodzak
#82. Insanity is the most pristine clarity.
A.G. Howard
#83. To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.
David
#84. Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.
Anuj
#87. I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
Kathryn Stockett
#88. Because people were people, and if there was one thing you could count on, it was that some of them would be weird. Or rather that all of them would be weird when circumstances happened to align with their own individual brand of insanity. That
Brandon Sanderson
#89. All you had to do was to keep your insanity under
control
Paulo Coelho
#90. Emotions rage inside me, something like a world war twisting inside my stomach and poking holes in my lungs. I can't pick apart reality from fantasy - does that mean insanity isn't far from my reach?
K. Weikel
#91. And the council doesn't recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.
Rachel Vincent
#92. He was a goddamn ranger. He dealt with scum and villains of all stripes, from the lowest street filth to the most dangerous psychos in a state where insanity was considered part of the way of life.
Evan Currie
#93. Love was insanity at its most beautiful - a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible.
A Meredith Walters
#94. Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.
Frederick Lenz
#95. The only way to survive insanity is to admit it.
Cameron Jace
#96. Men ... " I huffed. "No guts, no glory ... Do you guys stop to consider the insanity of all of it, or do you just charge ahead without a second thought?"
"This from the woman who would surrender her own life without a moment's consideration?"
He had me there.
M.A. George
#97. Male territorial insanity yields only to another male. What a difference the possession of a penis makes!
Marilyn French
#98. Maybe I am losing it. They say a big sign of mental illness is not knowing you have it. But isn't it real insanity to go through the world ignoring people in front of you? All your friends were strangers before they became friends. I sneak glances at the darling strangers on the subway.
Dakota Lane
#99. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#100. Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
David
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