Insane Quotes

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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

  William James

  Fear, Past, History

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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Social Taboos

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Effort, Employment

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• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  R. D. Laing

  Depression, Crazy, Insane World

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• I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

  Waylon Jennings

  Crazy, Insanity, May

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  And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Charm, Occasions

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.37, Dial Press

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• and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

  Charles Bukowski

  Cheater, Laughing, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.191, Canongate Books

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• Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

  John Lennon

  Life, Depression, Running

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.169, Vintage

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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  Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Crazy, Party

  Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Crazy, Mistake

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• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

  William C. Dement

  Life, Dream, Clever

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• If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Insanity, Society, Humans

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.410, Penguin

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• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  Ray Bradbury

  Insanity, Bipolar, Crazy People

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Inspiration, Perfect

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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• Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

  Nora Ephron

  Depression, Crazy, Insane Person

  "What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present", (p. 320), 1989.

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• It's great to be young and insane.

  Michael Keaton

  Depression, Mental Illness, Young

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