Insanity Quotes - Page 18

• What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Long, Missing, Residents

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Infinity: Chronicles of Nick”, p.281, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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 from." "Oh. L-A-Y-T-O-N." "Ah-Lay-ton." That's what I said." "No you didn't. You just said, 'Lay'en.'" "So I did. But just go ahead and pronounce 'aluminum' for me, Mr. British Man. How are you going to defend that piece of insanity? Why don't you spell it and count syllables and see if your al-um-in-ium makes sense whatsoever?" He bowed his head. "Touch...

  Shannon Hale

  Men, Lakes, Cities

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• That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

  Mira Grant

  Crazy, Nice, Evil People

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• Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Success, Demand, Sometimes

  Isobelle Carmody (2011). “The Keeping Place: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book Four”, p.701, A&C Black

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• I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Dark, Feelings, Would Be

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.363, Penguin

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• Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

  George Santayana

  Madness, Wonderful, Occasional

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl Interrupted, Matter, Dropping

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.41, Vintage

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• Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Thinking, Genius, Lines

  Nikki Giovanni (1983). “Those who ride the night winds”, William Morrow & Co

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• Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Giving, Feminist, Feminism

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• Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

  David Sedaris

  Believe, House, Feelings

  "The Birds". www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Do they see the lethal insanity of a race to the brink of oblivion, and then over the edge? Apparently not. If they did, surely they wouldn't be racing to begin with. Or is it a simple failure of imagination? One doesn't like to think such a rudimentary failing could bring about the end, yet...

  Stephen King

  Simple, Thinking, Race

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

  Erwin McManus

  Loneliness, Suffering, Despair

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• Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.

  Robert Grudin

  Powerful, Moving, Winning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Idiot, Lost, Howl

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.476, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.

  A. Y. Jackson

  Men, Drawing, Criticism

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• Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beauty, Power, Government

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• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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• The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

  Gary Paulsen

  Children, War, Land

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

  Isaac Asimov

  Choices, Humanity, Common

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• I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk - who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit.

  Cate Blanchett

  Mean, Thinking, Forever

  "Cate Blanchett: 'Getting Married Is Insanity'". people.com. January 12, 2007.

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• The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.

  Hal Clement

  Thinking, Aberration, Captains

  "Mission of Gravity" by Hal Clement, (Ch. 9), 1954.

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• Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

  Vanna Bonta

  Discovery, Survival, Cosmos

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• A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

  Michael Foot

  Would Be, Nuclear, World

  "Michael Foot: key quotes" by Richard Nelsson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.

  Robert E. Howard

  Moving, Brain, London

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, c. November 1928.

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• Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.

  Bradley Denton

  Wise, Uncles, Men

  "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Book by Bradley Denton, 1991.

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