Insanity Quotes
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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
William James -
Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
Muddy Waters
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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 -
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
Franz Kafka -
People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
Dan Barker -
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 -
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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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
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 -
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 -
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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 -
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
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Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
David Stockman -
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 -
I engaged in the wildest shenanigans just to distract myself from the horror surrounding me; I was acting according to the motto: if insanity laughs at you, laugh back!
Akif Pirincci -
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 -
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 -
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Seneca the Younger
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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 -
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
Virginia Woolf -
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury -
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