Insanity Quotes
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This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.
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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.
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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.
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...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.
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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.
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We're going off the rails on a crazy train.
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A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
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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.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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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.
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
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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.
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Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is continuing to try the same approach to solve a problem but expecting different results.
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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
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People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.
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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.
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Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
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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.
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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.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
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Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
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Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.