Insanity Quotes - Page 20

• He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive . . .

  James Agee

  Track, Mind, Alive

  James Agee (1969). “Agee on film: Reviews and comments”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

  Henry David Thoreau

  House, Staying, Hospitals

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.299, Yale University Press

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• When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insane, World, Earth

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• Embrace your inner lunatic.

  Derek Landy

  Embrace, Lunatic

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• Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

  Georges Bernanos

  Savages, Anticipation, Equal

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• You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

  Timothy Egan

  Creativity, Serendipity, Magic

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• The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd be put in jail immediately ... In the face of such insanity masquerading as authority, who wouldnt be strident?

  Jack Kevorkian

  Animal, Humane Way, Jail

  "Kevorkian suggests guidelines for suicides", www.cnn.com. January 14, 1997.

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• But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Insane, Roles

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.6, Nellie Bly

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• We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.

  Mark Lawrence

  Block, Men, Giving

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• Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

  David Stockman

  World, Central Banks

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• The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

  David Rosenhan

  Long, Facts, Use

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• It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

  Murray Leinster

  Cosmos, Symptoms, Humans

  "The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 4, 1964.

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• The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insane, Empires, Violence

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

  Henry Rollins

  Insane, Body, Want

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

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• Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

  Alice Cooper

  Want, Littles, Streets

  Song: Chop, Chop, Chop

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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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• Love is the only antidote for the insanity of this world. And the funny thing about love is that when someone loves you, it doesn't necessarily make you feel better; but when you love someone else, it does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Love You, Buddhism

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• It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Vision

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

  Tom Ford

  Perfectionist

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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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• It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

  Erwin McManus

  Running, Searching For Love

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.50, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Successful, Wish, Firsts

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