Lunacy Quotes

45 quotes by 43 authors

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole,… — Jo Brand
From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Anger is a brief lunacy. — Horace
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about; and those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are… — Bill Maher
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. — David Brooks
If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy… — Nicholas Stern
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Truthfully, my life is always lunacy. — Bethenny Frankel
I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure… — Paul Farmer
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made… — Timothy Radcliffe
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form… — Joseph Epstein
Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious… — Mike Seabrook
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits… — Edward Dahlberg
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was… — Joseph Goebbels
I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it… — Stephen Dobyns
Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful. — Bob Hoskins
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think… — Nicole Krauss

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