Insanity Quotes
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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 -
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Rita Mae Brown
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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it...
Edgar Allan Poe -
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
William Allen White -
My passion for fashion borders on insanity.
Isabella Blow -
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 -
As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.
Charles Baxter -
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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Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.
Isabelle Huppert -
Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.
Hannah Arendt -
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso -
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens -
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 -
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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Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
Augusta Jane Evans -
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, right? I always figure that as you experience life and things, you usually learn and pick up on things that you can do better. That's how I look at my career over time.
Michelle Carter -
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
Isobelle Carmody -
Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
Ariana Franklin -
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.
Stephen F. Lynch -
When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.
Mojo Nixon
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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 -
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Nathanael Emmons -
Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
David Bowie -
Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
Bradley Denton