Insanity Quotes · Page 14

Control your life through insanity.

— Cliff Burton

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

— Nikki Giovanni

“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions." Henry Ward Beecher”

— Henry Ward Beecher

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had…

— Rachel Vincent

I never meditated before. I wish I'd started when I was a footballer or more importantly when I was a manager. It…

— Gianluca Vialli

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the…

— Susanna Kaysen

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

— R. D. Laing

Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

— Frank Zappa

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

— Mark Twain

Religion is insanity by consensus.

— Bill Maher

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

— Colin Wilson

He just gets progressively more and more stressed and as his anxiety builds up, so does the chaos behind his eyes. That…

— Aidan Gallagher

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around…

— Martin Freeman

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

— Anais Nin

“One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be…

— Anthony Kiedis

“This damn ring had derailed her life. No wonder Gollum had gone insane.”

— Karina Bliss

“Insane love. Loving insanity. Insanity and love...”

— Simona Panova

Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

— Harry Nilsson

There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the…

— Robert Crais

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

— Lou Reed

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

— David Bowie

“That is quite another thing," said Albert; "because a man under the influence of violent passion loses all power of reflection, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

— Ariana Franklin

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in…

— Orson Scott Card

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt…

— Nellie Bly