Insanity Quotes

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No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities. — Ry Cooder
Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a… — Eric Schlosser
As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and… — James Agee
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear… — Gaston Bachelard
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. — Ambrose Bierce
You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. — Joseph Kesselring
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a… — Robert M. Pirsig
I teach that all men are mad. — Horace
The different sorts of madness are innumerable. — Avicenna
A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. — Thomas Carlyle
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… — Mark Twain
But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers. — Mark Twain
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies. — Mark Twain
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
No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves… — Mark Twain
...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
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in… — Paulo Coelho
A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity. — Sandy Woodward
When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free. — Nelson Mandela
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind.… — Eckhart Tolle

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