Insanity Quotes
626 quotes by 459 authors
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to…
— Antonin Artaud
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the…
— Christian Bale
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Control your life through insanity.
— Cliff Burton
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One person's craziness is another person's reality.
— Tim Burton
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Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
— Arthur C. Clarke
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
— Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
— Harry J. Anslinger
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No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
— Henry Van Dyke
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
— Edward Abbey
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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:…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities,…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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