Insanity Quotes

• For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Imagination
  • Creativity
  • Insanity

• I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Insanity

• Aping Urbanity, Oozing with Vanity Plump as a Manatee, Faking Humanity Journalistic Calamity, Intellectual Inanity Fox News Insanity, You're a profanity Hannity

  

  John Cleese
  • Humanity
  • Insanity

• The step between genius and insanity is very short.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Genius
  • Short
  • Step

• The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Whole
  • Insanity
  • Ridiculous

• I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Commitment
  • Insanity

• I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Trick
  • Heavens
  • Euphoria

• I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Fear
  • Taken
  • Insanity

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking about what that means, one of the definitions of insanity is that you lose your ability to communicate to anybody because your frames of reference have become so different from the rest of the world that you can't communicate anymore.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Communicate
  • Entertain
  • Worries

• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • You
  • Insanity

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Job
  • Community
  • Insanity

• Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Knowledge
  • Insanity

• No outsider can imagine the stupidity, blustering hysteria, authoritarianism, and paralyzing boredom of shooting a flick for Billy Wilder. The so-called 'actors' are simply trained poodles who sit up on their hind legs and jump through hoops. I thought the insanity would never stop. But I got a shitload of money.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Up
  • Money
  • Stop

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Know
  • Genius
  • Insanity

• Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Together
  • Strong

• Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Loneliness

• If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Interesting
  • inspirational
  • Mysterious

• The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Impossible
  • Texas
  • Insanity

• Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • People
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Insanity

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