Insanity Quotes
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All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.
T.I.
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
Umberto Eco
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Seneca the Younger
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Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.
Molly Ringwald
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The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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When I'm in the kitchen, I don't want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system - and the system, it's another form of insanity that has grabbed me.
Christian Slater
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To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.
Hippolyte Taine
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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
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This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.
Paul Auster
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
Patty Duke
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Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
David Stockman
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
William Ellery Channing
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We're going off the rails on a crazy train.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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My passion for fashion borders on insanity.
Isabella Blow
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People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury
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Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.
Zoë Heller
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Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
Bradley Denton
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
Rumi
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I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.
David Bowie
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Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.
John Carpenter