Insanity Quotes - Page 7

• The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

  Francois Rabelais

  Life, Death, Farce

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• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Lying, Passion

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.527, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Girlfriend, Mistake, Temporary Insanity

  Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

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• Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Discipline, Perfect, Achievement

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• I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this insanity. People are on edge, desperate and afraid. Those who aren't are soulless or living in extreme denial, locked in a magic kingdom of their own making. As a comic I get to poke at people's bubbles! Of course I'm pleased. I get to be their mouthpiece for their rage and fear! Tremendous fun.

  Eddie Pepitone

  Fun, People, Magic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Art, Majority Rule

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

  Edvard Munch

  Angel, Artist, Disease

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• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Enlightenment, Challenging The Status Quo

  "A chat about the novel 'Fight Club'". www.cnn.com. October 27, 1999.

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• You're kidding," Shane said. "Do you think I want to visit Crazy McTeeth in his lair of insanity?" "No," Claire said, "but I'm pretty sure you won't like it if I go alone when I just kind of promised to be with you. So...?" "Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway." "Stop making up names for him." "What about Count Crackula?" "Just stop.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Thinking, Names

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.54, Penguin

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• "A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

  George Orwell

  Crazy, Minorities, Definitions

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• Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Kings, Temporary Insanity, Hands

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• Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

  Guillermo del Toro

  Insane, Doe, Add

  Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (2011). “The Night Eternal”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

  David Bowie

  Suicide, Self Harm, Razors

  Song: Young Americans

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• Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

  Susanna Kaysen

  Acting, Matter, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Jan 21, 2015

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• Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

  Richard Kadrey

  Able, Contradiction, Embrace

  Richard Kadrey (2015). “Butcher Bird”, p.240, Booklassic

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• Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Majority, Madness

  "Much madness is divinest sense" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

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• Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Swim, Insane

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.129, Penguin

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• Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Self, Energy, States

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• Religion is insanity by consensus.

  Bill Maher

  Religion, Atheism, Consensus

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• One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only when a rosebush grows roseflowers; when it flowers, when it has its own individuality. You may be a rosebush and trying to flower as lotus flower - that is creating insanity. Erase the mind. And the way to erase it is not by fight: the way to erase it is just to become aware.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Fighting, Creating

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• Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence - then creativity is healthy. But if it does not arise out of meditation, out of silence and peace and understanding and love, then there is a danger. It may be arising out of your confused mind. It may be arising out of your insanity.

  Rajneesh

  Confused, Creativity, Two

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• Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Accepting, Easier, Unconsciousness

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.149, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Genius, Form

  "Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

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• And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

  Rachel Vincent

  Crazy, Real, Temporary Insanity

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.159, MIRA

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