Insane Quotes - Page 3

• The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Knowledge, Mad

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, People, Giving

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.29, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Order

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• To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

  John Forbes Nash

  People, Wish, Useful Life

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• Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Education, Attitude

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Christian, Atheist, Fun

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• Character is what you are in the dark.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Inspirational Life, Humorous

  Attributed in "D.L. Moody" by William R. Moody, (p. 503), 1930.

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• If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

  Art Hoppe

  God, Humorous, Profound

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• I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

  John Lennon

  Pain, Blame, Victim

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• It's an insane world, and I'm proud to be a part of it.

  Bill Hicks

  Insane World, World, Proud

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• I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• Go insane go insane, throw some glitter, make it rain...!

  Kesha

  Rain, Glitter

  Song: Blow, Album: I Am The Dance Commander + I Command You To Dance:The Remix Album, 2011

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• I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

  Thomas Harris

  Dragons, Call Me

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.217, Penguin

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• It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Long, Half, Might

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• That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Delight, Poetic

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

  Anne Fortier

  Philosophy, Taken, Aunt

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• People can do great things. However, there are somethings they just can't do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. I could, however, make myself insane, if I wished. (Though if I achieved the second, I might be able to make myself think I'd achieved the first....) Anyway, if there's a lesson to be learned, it's this: great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable. Or, in easier terms, distinguishing between Popsicles and insanity. Any questions?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Thinking, Years, Lessons To Be Learned

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Earth, Asylums, Universe

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• He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

  Cory Doctorow

  Years, Drunk, Waiting

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.116, Booklassic

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• Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mother, Memories, Eye

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.72, Penguin Books India

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• But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

  Kathy Acker

  Order, People, World

  Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper (2002). “Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker”, p.206, Grove Press

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• Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

  Lisi Harrison

  Dream, Insanity, Lines

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!

  Kami Garcia

  Vegetarian, Demon, Quarters

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• Yeah,” said Iggy. “But what now? Let’s do something fun.” I guess being on the run from bloodthirsty Erasers and insane scientists wasn’t enough fun for him. Kids today are so spoiled.

  James Patterson

  Running, Fun, Kids

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• I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, Knows, Ifs

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.123, Hachette UK

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