Insanity Quotes - Page 27

• Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Verge

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• Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Brain, Forget

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• We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  War, Believe, Iran

  "Cleric: US threats, fruits of insanity". Press TV, October 2007.

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• Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

  Maureen Stapleton

  Home, Odds, Theatre

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• in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Fear, Night, People

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Mean, Self, Expression

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• Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

  Josh Lieb

  Crazy, Stupidity, Make Sense

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.56, Penguin

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• You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.

  Susan Moody

  Perception, Insane, Sincerity

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, Dell Publishing Company

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• There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

  Lisa Lopes

  Crazy, Genius, Lines

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

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Trying, Abnormal

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• In loquaciousness lay insanity.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Lays

  Alan Dean Foster (2014). “Alien: The Official Movie Novelization”, p.8, Titan Books

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• If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

  George Orwell

  Forever, Nineteen, Prevailing

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.165, Arcturus Publishing

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• But there is no such man; for, brother, men
  Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
  Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
  Their counsel turns to passion, which before
  Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
  Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
  Charm ache with air and agony with words.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Brother, Grief

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1491, Oxford University Press

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• Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

  Ian Frazier

  Nonsense

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• Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Neurosis, Causes, Ends

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5109, Delphi Classics

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• To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

  Jann Wenner

  Moving, Ipads, Insecurity

  "Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush To Ipad Is 'Sheer Insanity And Insecurity And Fear'". Interview with Nat Ives, adage.com. May 30, 2011.

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• When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Spiritual, Jesus, Pride

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• American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

  Fanny Kemble

  Animal, Men, Stupidity

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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• Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Children, Social

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.78

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• Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

  Jim Carrey

  Crazy, People, Goal

  "New Again: Jim Carrey". Interview with Betsy Borns, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 28, 2014.

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• What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.

  Blaise Pascal

  Silly, Doe, Fool

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Views, Insane, Asylums

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• We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.

  Kenneth Goff

  Christian, Religious, Lying

  Lavrent Beria, Kenneth Goff “THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics”, Lulu.com

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• What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Creativity, Thinking, Air

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