Insanity Quotes - Page 10

• And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

  Jack Kerouac

  Garden, Thinking, Nuts

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• One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Genius, World

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• I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Insane, Switzerland, Doe

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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• Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

  Charles Bukowski

  Norm, Relative

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• There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

  Alethea Kontis

  Taken, Fighting, Men

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

  Sarah Kane

  Beautiful, Lying, Embrace

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.229, A&C Black

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• Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

  Andrea Gibson

  People

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors

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• Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

  Liane Moriarty

  Aggravation, Hovering, Form

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• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Depression, Lying, Future

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

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

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

  Bill Mauldin

  Funny, Motivation, Science

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• Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

  Steve Landesberg

  Funny, Sarcastic, Truth

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

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• They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

  Gerald Massey

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

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• Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Names, People

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• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Art, Salad, Garlic

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• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Drug, Hemp

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• No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Eye, Thinking

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.51, The Floating Press

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• As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Government, Liberty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

  Norman Mailer

  Foundation, Mental Illness, Building

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• Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Mind, Warning

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• In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Feelings, Disease

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

  Robert Muller

  War, Degrees, Sacred

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• For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.

  Marilyn French

  Real, Home, Men

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• He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Done, Politics

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