Insanity Quotes

626 quotes by 440 authors

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. — Vladimir Nabokov
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. — Rita Mae Brown
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. — George Orwell
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane. — Robert Frost
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. — William Shakespeare
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of… — Bertrand Russell
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. — Unknown Author
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are… — Thomas Ligotti
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the… — Herman Melville
Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond… — Augusten Burroughs
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. — Emily Dickinson
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man… — Ayn Rand
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his… — John Kennedy Toole
Insanity is catching. — Terry Pratchett
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligenceâ€“ whether much that is… — Edgar Allan Poe
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razorâ€™s edge, sharper than a houndâ€™s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is… — Philip K. Dick
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. — Haruki Murakami

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