Insanity Quotes - Page 6

• ... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

  Bob Dylan

  World

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

  Frank Bidart

  Insistence

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• Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because it threatens you as because it shows humans in such an inhuman light. You see a kind of insanity, something so obscene the very obscenity of it (rather than its threat) terrifies you. It was so new I could not take my eyes from the man's face. I felt like saying: "What in God's name are you doing to yourself?

  John Howard Griffin

  Fear, Heart, Eye

  John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.49, Wings Press

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• The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Hurt, Feelings

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• Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

  Ariana Franklin

  Evil, Wickedness, Excuse

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• Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

  Voltaire

  Bipolar, Insane, Earth

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• The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

  Errol Morris

  Pursuit

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• They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

  Ric Ocasek

  People, Insane, Would Be

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• There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Time, Pain, Blow

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• Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.

  Muddy Waters

  Dog, Bark, Ifs

  Song: My Dog Can't Bark

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• Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

  Harlan Coben

  Reality, Thinking, Mind

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• Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Political, Definitions

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• Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;
  When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:–
  And the man who dares to tell the truth,
  Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

  George Francis Train

  Peace, Fear, Truth

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• Stop the world. I want to get off.

  Anthony Newley

  World, Want

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• There is always some madness in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Crush, Sexy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Law, Broken, Insane

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.773, Simon and Schuster

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• If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, People, Giving

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.29, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck.
  It taxes you when you make a phone call.
  It taxes you when you turn on a light.
  It taxes you when you sell a stock.
  It taxes you when you fill your car with gas.
  It taxes you when you ride a plane.
  It taxes you when you get married.
  Then it taxes you when you die.
  This is taxual insanity and it must end.

  J. C. Watts

  Home, Phones, Light

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• Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

  Shannon Hale

  Home, Boys, Laughing

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• I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Simple, Judging

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.

  Willie Nelson

  Crazy, Loving You, Trying

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• Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

  Paulo Coelho

  World, Used, Grows

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• Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

  Zoë Heller

  Fall, Fighting, Lost Ones

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• Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Depression, Knowing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.

  Alice Cooper

  Four, Knows

  Song: No Man's Land, Album: Da Da, 1983

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