Insane Quotes - Page 18

• . . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations of situations that are insane or absurd. . . . At first I thought the events had power in themselves, that I would just present them. I really wasn't aware of the things that finally became central issues to me - the shifting alliances, the way people hardly even know they've shifted. That part of [A QUESTION OF MERCY] is very familiar to me in terms of my other plays.

  David Rabe

  Thinking, Play, Issues

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• There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Father, Names

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, War, Color

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• Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

  Abraham Pais

  Stars, Crazy, Yellow

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

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• I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

  Maeve Binchy

  Vacation, People, Realizing

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• Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

  Sebastian Faulks

  Drug

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I think I feel the most comfortable being insane.

  Shannon Leto

  Thinking, Feels, Comfortable

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• Well, I might take a plane, I might take a train. How do you people live here? You must be insane. I'm leaving Sacramento. Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Kings, Wwe, People

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• I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.

  David Rakoff

  Betrayal, Rocks, Challenges

  David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.20, Anchor

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• The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Choices, Society

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• 15 steel chairs? That's insane. It was 23 steel chairs.

  John Cena

  Wwe, Steel, Chairs

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• I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.

  Kate Voegele

  Kids, Guitar, Lasts

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• But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing - with it's cumbersome securitization and insane military projects - to destroy the capitalist order itself if that's what it took to make it seem inevitable.

  David Graeber

  Military, Order, Years

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• I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

  Mike Rowe

  Years, Ideas, Wish

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughter, Humor, Ideas

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• I've developed a stiff neck that's about to drive me insane.

  'Little' Jimmy Dickens

  Necks, Stiff Neck

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• Superman, when he's fighting you, isn't like Batman. He also isn't like Spider-man, who will bully you and make fun of his villains. Why do you think Spider-man's villains all hate him so much? Maybe because as he breaks their bones he's mocking them! Batman's villains are all insane! Superman, when he goes after someone, is essentially not trying to beat them. He's trying to save them from themselves.

  Max Landis

  Fun, Hate, Fighting

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• It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

  John Steinbeck

  Nerves, Calm, Mental Illness

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.92, Penguin

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• In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

  Lin Yutang

  Asylums, West, Madness

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!

  Ken Kesey

  Voting, Yeah, Wells

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• The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

  Karl Shapiro

  Men, Self, Shallow

  Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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• The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Heart, Order

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• It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

  Dan Winters

  Thinking, Violent, Loud

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• Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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