Insanity Quotes

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Insanity makes the rivers flow. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that… — Joanne Greenberg
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my… — Vladimir Nabokov
No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity. — Ellen Hopkins
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where… — David Sheff
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the… — Rachel Carson
To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary… — Dorothy Koomson
Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was… — Anne Fortier
People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a… — Brandon Sanderson
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker — Darynda Jones
Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to… — Lisi Harrison
You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're… — Shannon Hale
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. — Eckhart Tolle
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it. — Paulo Coelho
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles… — John Green
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy
I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available… — Gabrielle Zevin
Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and… — Kirsten Miller

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