Insanity Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.

  Bobby Darin

  Dream, Lovers

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• Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mess, Manic Depression, Manic

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• Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Crazy, Healing, Blame

  Song: Crazy Train, Album: Blizzard of Ozz, 2009

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• Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

  Frank Zappa

  Work, Moving, Dental Floss

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• Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Eye, Night, Purple

  Song: Purple Haze

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• Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

  Bob Dylan

  Ocean, People, Seven

  Song: Ballad of Hollis Brown

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• She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.

  David Bowie

  Mind, Dangerous

  Song: Scary Monsters, 1980

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• Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

  Alice Cooper

  Trying, Balls, Butchers

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• There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Mental Illness

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• So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Fantasy, Schizophrenia

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• The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible.
  I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.

  Tara Brown

  Dark, Reflection, Quiet

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• I don't know why I go to extremes.

  Billy Joel

  Extremes, Knows

  Song: I Go To Extremes, Album: Storm Front, 1989

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