Insanity Quotes - Page 18

• A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

  Virginia Woolf

  Age, Veils, Born

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

  Dane Cook

  Winning, Mind, Sound

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Mar 05, 2011

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• Committing to a level you'll never attain may sound ridiculous, and it is. It's a form of insanity -- something also known as life. Everything moves forward or dies. Whether or not you actually move forward is irrelevant. What matters is that you never stop trying.

  Marc Parent

  Moving, What Matters, Trying

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• It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

  Tippi Hedren

  Cat, Pet, Missions

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• If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Insane, Society, Humans

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

  David Bowie

  Faces, Wells, Know Me

  Song: Janine, Album: Space Oddity, 2006

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• The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Understanding, Lapses, Paganism

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• Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Crazy, Waste

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• I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.

  Tom Ford

  Perfectionist

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• There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

  Tom Robbins

  Character, Moon, Essentials

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• I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.

  Tim Dorsey

  Suffering, Enjoy, I Can

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• Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hands, Restaurants, Simile

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.207, Penguin Books India

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• I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Temporary Insanity, Defense

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• We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Sick, Dying

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• The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Technology, Choices

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• Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Mother, Justice, Diversity

  Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour.

  Martin Luther

  Suicide, Liars, Suicidal

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Religious, Drinking, Hysteria

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

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• People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

  Don Johnson

  Divorce, People, Alcohol

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

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• Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, People, Ordinary

  "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

  Sidney Cohen

  Thinking, Circles, Mind

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• The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too hard for them, and artists use it as a window in a watch-tower. Psychologists call it a psychological mechanism; magicians call it magic, and the man in the street calls it illusion or charlatanry according to taste. It does not matter to me what it is called, for it is effectual.

  Dion Fortune

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Dion Fortune (2003). “Moon Magic”, p.83, Weiser Books

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• To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Christ

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• Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Mean, Unbearable

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