Insane Quotes - Page 26

• If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Laughter, Crazy, Laughing

  Song: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

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• You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Song, Men, Fire

  Song: Great Balls of Fire

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• But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Mountain, Notes

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Crazy People, Novelists

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• ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Perfect, Insanity

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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• When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insanity, World, Earth

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• Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

  Unknown

  Insanity, Reactions, Insanity And Sanity

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• A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

  Edward Lear

  Music, Roaring, Ass

  Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

  Alexander Herzen

  Goal, Atheism, Generations

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• Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.

  St. Sukie de la Croix

  Zombie, Thanks, Apocalypse

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• It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

  Clive James

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  "Falling Towards England". Book by Clive James, 1985.

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• The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Asylums, Rats

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press

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• But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Insanity, Roles

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.6, Nellie Bly

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• I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

  Nellie Bly

  Ideas, Insane Person, Action

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.7, Nellie Bly

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• The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

  Rufus Choate

  War, Passion, Awful

  Rufus Choate (2002). “The Political Writings of Rufus Choate”, p.52, Regnery Gateway

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• The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

  Norman O. Brown

  Reality, Prejudice, Favors

  Norman O. Brown (1968). “Love's Body”

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• The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

  Frank Darabont

  Race, Two, Together

  "The human race is insane" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2008.

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• As a species we're fundamentally insane.

  Stephen King

  Species

  "The Mist". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

  Ruby Wax

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oxford

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• I like men who are very cool but also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.

  Jolene Blalock

  Moving, Men, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Girl, Spices, Spice Girls

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• I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!

  Peter Andre

  Song, Mean, Made

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• I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

  Randy Cohen

  Thinking, Insecurity, President

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• We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

  Lizz Winstead

  Political, Elements, Court

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