Insane World Quotes

• Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

  John Lennon

  Life, Depression, Running

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  R. D. Laing

  Depression, Crazy, Insanity

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• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Depression, Crazy, Mad

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.

  Chris Hedges

  Wall, Mass Culture, Able

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• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Funny, Depression, Crazy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  Carl Jung

  Funny, Depression, Witty

  Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Healthy, Forests, Hours

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• In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

  Rachel Caine

  Littles, Sanity, Made

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood”, p.170, Allison & Busby

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• Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

  R. D. Laing

  Break Through, Insanity, Bipolar

  'The Politics of Experience' (1967) ch. 6

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• It's an insane world, and I'm proud to be a part of it.

  Bill Hicks

  Insane, World, Proud

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• This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

  Salman Rushdie

  Strange, Realism, Seems

  "Salman Rushdie Discusses The Role Of The Novel In The Era Of 24-Hour News In Talk At CU-Boulder" by Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Heart, Order

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• It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Attitude, Self, Essence

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• THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.

  Arthur Miller

  Past, Reality, Needs

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.577, Bloomsbury Publishing

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