Insanity Quotes
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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.
Aaron David Miller
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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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People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.
Thomas Sowell
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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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Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
Augusta Jane Evans
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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 choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
Mercedes McCambridge
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Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
Erwin McManus
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If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.
Austan Goolsbee
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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso
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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it...
Edgar Allan Poe
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Seneca the Younger
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Nathanael Emmons
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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
Isobelle Carmody
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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
Isabelle Huppert
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The truth is that it has not been my pipe dream to have a restaurant. I know restaurateurs, and the amount of work that goes into a restaurant is nothing short of insanity. It's a real commitment, and most restaurants don't make it, so the odds are really against you.
Antoni Porowski
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It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
Erwin McManus
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The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
William Allen White