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Quotes About Insanity
Quotes tagged as "insanity" (showing 1-50 of 206)
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: humor, insanity, life 35,098 people liked it like
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown
tags: humor, insanity 8,264 people liked it like
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin
tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth 7,857 people liked it like
“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant
tags: genius, humor, insanity 6,420 people liked it like
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
tags: insanity, sanity 4,641 people liked it like
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
tags: insanity, madness, reality 2,885 people liked it like
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
tags: insanity, love, marriage 1,046 people liked it like
“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton
tags: craziness, insanity, perspective, reality, sanity 925 people liked it like
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: insanity, society 830 people liked it like
“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
tags: humor, insanity, sanity 737 people liked it like
“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III
tags: insanity, women 712 people liked it like
“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon
tags: insanity, stupidity 692 people liked it like
“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
tags: alice-in-wonderland, insanity, madness 657 people liked it like
“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity 610 people liked it like
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity 592 people liked it like
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems
tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity 478 people liked it like
“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
tags: insanity 426 people liked it like
“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
tags: insanity, inspiration 347 people liked it like
“I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.”
― Libba Bray
tags: blog-post, humor, insanity 327 people liked it like
“Insanity is catching.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money
tags: insanity 314 people liked it like
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: emotions, heart, insanity, love, rationality, reason 307 people liked it like
“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
tags: drunkenness, insanity 296 people liked it like
“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
tags: babyghosts, insanity, misunderstandings, sisters 288 people liked it like
“First sign of madness, talking to your own head.”
― J.K. Rowling
tags: insanity, maddness 282 people liked it like
“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
tags: humor, insanity, religion, war 277 people liked it like
“When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
tags: insanity, misattributed, perseverance, sanity 256 people liked it like
“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
tags: bob-the-skull, harry-dresden, humor, insanity 230 people liked it like
“People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
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