Insanity Quotes
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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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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
William James
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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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People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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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.
James Cook
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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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Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
Augusta Jane Evans
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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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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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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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Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it...
Edgar Allan Poe
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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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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso
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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
Isobelle Carmody
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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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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
Virginia Woolf