Insanity Quotes
626 quotes by 440 authors
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I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I…
— Shia LaBeouf
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
— R. D. Laing
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One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
— Ann Landers
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable…
— John Lennon
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
— John Lennon
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
— Oscar Levant
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
— Sam Levenson
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One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean,…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion,…
— H P Lovecraft
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I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
— Stephen F. Lynch
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
— Abraham Maslow
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I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
— H. L. Mencken
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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
— Edvard Munch
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I'm a nut, but not just a nut.
— Bill Murray
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
— Isaac Newton
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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