Insanity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.
-- Adolf Hitler -
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
-- Alain de Botton -
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
-- Aleister Crowley -
One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.
-- Alice Cooper -
Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.
-- Alice Cooper -
She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.
-- Alice Cooper -
Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.
-- Alice Cooper -
Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.
-- Alice Paul -
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.
-- Alton Brown -
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.
-- Amy Adams -
Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
-- Andrea Gibson -
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
-- Anita Roddick -
I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.
-- Anuj -
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 -
Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
-- Ariana Franklin -
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
-- Aristotle -
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
-- Aristotle -
A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.
-- Arthur Miller -
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.
-- Arundhati Roy -
The insanity has to stop...It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show up in our relationships and at work, our sense of our worth, value, and potential as human beings. Join in-and help change-the Conversation.
-- Ashley Judd -
Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
-- Augusta Jane Evans -
Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
-- Augustus Saint-Gaudens -
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
-- Barbara Kruger -
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
-- Barry Mann -
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.
-- Bell Hooks -
I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
-- Billy Collins -
I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.
-- Billy Joel -
We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
-- Billy Joel -
You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
-- Billy Joel -
How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.
-- Bob Dylan -
Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.
-- Bob Dylan -
...we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep....
-- Bob Dylan -
I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.
-- Bobby Darin -
I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
-- Cary Grant -
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
-- Cesare Lombroso -
Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
-- Charles Kettering -
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
-- Charles Tart -
Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.
-- Chris Brown -
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
-- Christopher Moore -
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
-- Dan Barker -
There is a fine line between insanity and genius.
-- Dan Brown -
Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.
-- Dane Cook -
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.
-- Dario Argento -
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.
-- Dave Matthews -
To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.
-- David -
The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.
-- David Rosenhan -
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.
-- David Sheff -
Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
-- David Stockman -
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.
-- Deb Caletti -
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
-- Diogenes -
He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
-- Dodie Smith -
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.
-- Dorothea Dix -
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
-- Edvard Munch -
As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
-- Edward Abbey -
All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
-- Emily Dickinson -
Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.
-- Eminem -
The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
-- Errol Morris -
It is insanity to run from God and search for love.
-- Erwin McManus -
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
