Insane Quotes
1188 quotes by 818 authors
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If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would…
— Jimmy Buffett
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You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness…
— Jerry Lee Lewis
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If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really…
— Jack Handey
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I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, "You know what will save the world? You're holding…
— Jack Handey
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Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I…
— Jack Handey
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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.
— Mark Twain
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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the…
— Mark Twain
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...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put…
— Mark Twain
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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.
— Thomas Szasz
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A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a…
— Edward Lear
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It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon…
— Alexander Herzen
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Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.
— Unknown Author
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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired…
— Clive James
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Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was…
— Lena Dunham
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The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
— Nellie Bly
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But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up…
— Nellie Bly
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I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like
— Nellie Bly
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The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for…
— Rufus Choate
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The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.
— Norman O. Brown
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