Insanity Quotes - Page 11

• He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

  Brandon Sanderson

  No Excuses, Behavior, Found

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.847, Macmillan

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• 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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• Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

  Harry Nilsson

  Echoes, Mind

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• Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.

  Warren Zevon

  Home, Boys, Said

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• Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Childhood, World

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• Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

  Ian Dury

  Nice, Sticks, Rhythm

  Song: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

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• I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Crazy, Color, Sky

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