Insanity And Sanity Quotes

• Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Successful, Insanity, Wish

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• 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Mad, People

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

  Euripides

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.410, Penguin

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• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Yoga, Health

  "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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• I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Insanity, Suffering, Signatures

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• Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Insanity, Insane

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Insanity, Mind

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.42, Reprint Services Corporation

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• For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Funny, Mean, Creativity

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• I teach that all men are mad.

  Horace

  Men, Mad, Insanity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 396-97, Satires, II. 3. 81, 1922.

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• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kings, Spring, Insanity

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

  Bill Mauldin

  Funny, Motivation, Science

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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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• Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Insanity

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• A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Insanity, Mind

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• The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.

  Jane Wagner

  Love, Perspective, Mind

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• Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Men, Insanity

  Journals

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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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• Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

  Diogenes

  Men, Mad, Insanity

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• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspiration, Perfect

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

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• Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Insanity, Madness

  "Much madness is divinest sense" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

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• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

  George Orwell

  Insanity, Minorities, Lunatic

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

  T. S. Eliot

  Health, Insanity, Despair

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Family Reunion”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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