Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“One of the signs of insanity is the belief that life after death matters more than life on Earth!” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in… — Dory Previn Copy Share Image
“Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day.… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't.… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter.… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with… — William Harwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“He'd more than achieved his goal; as usual Boyd had the ability to completely blow his mind. If insanity had a temporary… — Sonny Hassell Copy Share Image
If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
