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Quotes About Insanity

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
~ Billy Collins
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
~ Billy Corgan
The road to madness is madness.
~ black lewis ii
Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...
~ Bob Dylan
He's the kind of person that would inspire crazy people.
~ Bob Woodward
Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is – and that reality is so horrible they lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
~ Harlan Coben
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible they lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
~ Harlan Coben
Too many of our insanities are tolerated because they are harmless on an individual level—but multiply them by a millionfold and you have a nation that is culturally sick. These things stem from each individual's conception of himself—which he arbitrarily assumes to be the nature of the world as well. These conceptions are haphazardly picked up during youth—along with all of the other opinions, neuroses, hangups and etceteras common to the human animal.
~ Harlan Ellison
Und er ging auf die Suche nach dem Wahnsinnigen, der seinen Namen in Großbuchstaben schrieb.
~ Harlan Ellison
It's not me but the world that's deranged.
~ Haruki Murakami
Insane es un problema mental congénito, y se considera conveniente tratarlo con una terapia especializada. En cambio, Lunatic se refiere a una pérdida temporal del juivio debido al efecto de la luna.
~ Haruki Murakami
No existe en ninguna parte del mundo real nada tan bello como las fantasías que alberga quien ha perdido la cordura.
~ Haruki Murakami
We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.
~ Haruki Murakami
Perhaps the most dangerous people in the world are the ones who believe in right and wrong but what they ascribe to as "right" and "wrong" is completely insane. They are bad with the conviction that they are good. That idea is the impetus behind evil.
~ Heather O'Neill
The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad
~ Heinrich Heine
Ordinary he was insane, But he had lucid moments when he was merely Stupid.
~ Heinrich Heine
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
~ Eddie Vedder
Seriously, I was the wrong fit at ESPN. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
~ Jason Whitlock
It's said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In that case, the WWE 'creative' team must be as crazy as a rainbow trout in a car wash.
~ Jim Cornette
I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.
~ Margaret Trudeau
The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.
~ Ryan Holiday
Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
~ Spike Jonze
My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
~ Spike Milligan
Busty' Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.
~ Spike Milligan