Insanity Quotes - Page 13

• I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

  Regina Spektor

  Process, Shows, Absolutes

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

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• One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Wise

  Alejandro Jodorowsky (2010). “Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy”, p.35, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Epidemics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

  Warren Zevon

  School, Order, Law

  Song: Mr. Bad Example

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• Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

  Michael Jackson

  Romantic, Taken, Passion

  Song: Dangerous

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• A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Broken, Mind

  Song: Alive, Album: Down To Earth

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• Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.

  Rose McGowan

  Fun, Thinking, Loud

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jun 22, 2013

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• Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Government, Years

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• I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

  Bob Dylan

  Stubborn, Politics

  Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

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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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• Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Thinking, Mind, Might

  Song: The Heartaches Are Free, Album: Tomorrow's Sounds Today, 2000

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• Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.

  Paul Simon

  Breakdown

  Song: Gumboots, Album: Graceland

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• Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

  Ray Davies

  Sleep, Might, Window

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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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• From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Wyoming, Lap, Nebraska

  Song: Nebraska, Album: Nebraska, 1982

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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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• Aping urbanity,
  Oozing with vanity,
  Plump as a manatee,
  Faking humanity,
  Intellectual inanity,
  Journalistic calamity,
  Fox Noise insanity,
  You're a profanity,
  Hannity.

  John Cleese

  Vanity, Humanity, Intellectual

  "Ode to Sean Hannity". Poem by John Cleese, www.dailykos.com.

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• Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

  Frank Zappa

  Vegetables, Chance, Chances Are

  Song: Soft-Sell Conclusion, Album: Absolutely Free

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• Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.

  Neil Diamond

  Crunchy, Neat, Granola

  Song: Crunchy Granola Suite, Album: Stones, 1971

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• Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

  Charles Kettering

  Stupidity, World, Action

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.

  Tupac Shakur

  Men, Conquer, He Man

  Song: Keep Ya Head Up, 1993

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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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• 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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• I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

  David Bowie

  Roaming, Madmen

  Song: All The Madmen, Album: The Man Who Sold the World, 1970

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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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