Insanity Quotes - Page 9

• I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Crazy, People, Available

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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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• The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

  Randy Pausch

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

  Jon Ronson

  Impact, What If, Way

  Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Temporary Insanity, People, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Names, Problem, Realizing

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• There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Way, Form

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

  Glen Cook

  Destiny, Shadow, World

  "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

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• He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

  Dodie Smith

  Long, May, Littles

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.345, St. Martin's Griffin

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• That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Falling In Love, Oxytocin, Drug

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• Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

  Aldous Huxley

  Individual, Collectives, Immune

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• Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Sick, Sparta

  "Hitler's Secret Book". Grove Press softcover book, 1961.

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• Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Doe, T Shirt

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Insane, Life Is

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• There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

  Dan Brown

  Genius, Lines, Fine

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.179, Random House

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• Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Names, People

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• He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

  Brandon Sanderson

  No Excuses, Behavior, Found

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.847, Macmillan

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• And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

  Jack Kerouac

  Garden, Thinking, Nuts

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• One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Genius, World

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• I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Insane, Switzerland, Doe

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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