Insanity Quotes
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Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity.
Oliver Kahn -
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.
D. H. Lawrence
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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 -
...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power. It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification. In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future. With God all is Now.
Edgar Allan Poe -
We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about today that's worth doing because it's just like yesterday and it's going to be just like tomorrow.
Ian Bogost -
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 -
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
William James -
Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.
Aaron David Miller
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Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
Muddy Waters -
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 -
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury -
Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
Franz Kafka -
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
Dan Barker
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Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.
Morgan Freeman -
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
Seneca the Younger -
Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
David Stockman -
I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this insanity. People are on edge, desperate and afraid. Those who aren't are soulless or living in extreme denial, locked in a magic kingdom of their own making. As a comic I get to poke at people's bubbles! Of course I'm pleased. I get to be their mouthpiece for their rage and fear! Tremendous fun.
Eddie Pepitone -
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 -
People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
Brad Warner -
Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Seneca the Younger -
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