Insane Quotes - Page 8

• Go insane go insane, throw some glitter, make it rain...!

  Kesha

  Rain, Glitter

  Song: Blow, Album: I Am The Dance Commander + I Command You To Dance:The Remix Album, 2011

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• I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.

  Loretta Chase

  Brother, Love You, Wish

  Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.363, Penguin

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• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

  Simone Weil

  Country, Power, Men

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• People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter... than a god who puts out traps for people, invites them to sin, and allows them to sin and commit crimes he could prevent. Only to finally get the barbarian pleasure to punish them in an excessive way, of no use for himself, without them changing their ways and without their example preventing others from committing crimes.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Death, Punishment, People

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• The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humorous, Science, People

  Richard P. Feynman's letter to Robert Bacher (April 6, 1950) as quoted in "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman", book by James Gleick, 1992.

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• If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Laughter, Laughing, Ifs

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• Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Dies, Eternal

  Song: If I Die 2Nite

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Atheist, Believe

  "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.

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• Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

  Ross Macdonald

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Drowning Pool”, p.28, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

  Erin O'Connor

  Crush, Growing Up, Boys

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2008.

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• But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Suicidal, People

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• The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

  Horace

  Latin, Mad, Composing

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• Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.

  Aberjhani

  Fashion, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

  Diane Black

  Humorous, Humility, Space

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• I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

  Alistair Cooke

  Golf, Two, Desire

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

  Anne Lamott

  Positive, Positivity, Voice

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2009

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• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?

  Philip K. Dick

  Depression, Thinking, Cities

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Four novels of the 1960s”

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• It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Depression, Humorous, Responsibility

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• The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

  Joseph Heller

  Depression, Men, Illness

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• I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Depression, Talking, Gone

  Jennifer Lynch (2011). “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm [expletive] insane, like I'm Hitler. One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.

  Kanye West

  Light, People, Shining

  "Kanye West Booed at Music Fest After He Compares Himself to Hitler" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 8, 2011.

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• A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to reach God, a spiritual person has to be divinely practical in his day-to-day activities. Spirituality does not negate the outer life. But we have to know that the outer life does not mean the animal life. The outer life should be the manifestation of the divine life within us.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Animal

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• Sometimes I wonder if all my friends are insane.

  Tom Angleberger

  Sometimes, Wonder, My Friends

  Tom Angleberger (2012). “The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Origami Yoda #3)”, p.173, Abrams

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