Insanity 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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• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

  Leo Buscaglia

  Crazy, World, Sane

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• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Personality, Mind

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• I fought with my twin, the enemy within.

  Bob Dylan

  Enemy, Twins, Enemy Within

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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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• Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, Welcome, Nightmare

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
  Can't we give ourselves one more chance
  Why can't we give love that one more chance
  Why can't we give love
  Cause love's such an old fashioned word
  and love dares you to care for
  The people on the edge of the night
  And love dares you to change our way of
  Caring about ourselves
  This is our last dance
  This is our last dance
  This is ourselves
  Under pressure

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Caring, Night

  Song: Under Pressure

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• We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

  Arthur Koestler

  Thinking, Insane

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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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  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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• I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crazy, Together, Ifs

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

  Ray Bradbury

  Bipolar, Crazy People, Insane

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

  Charles Baxter

  Mother, Crazy, Men

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.138, Vintage

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• I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

  Bill Murray

  Funny, Nuts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

  George Carlin

  Cutting, Nuts, House

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• If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Nuts, Insane

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• Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

  Unknown

  Insane, Reactions, Insanity And Sanity

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

  Horace

  Fool, Sane

  Horace (1853). “Opera omnia”, p.461

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• ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Perfect, Insane

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

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• A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

  Anthony the Great

  Religious, Time, Crazy

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• Control your life through insanity.

  Cliff Burton

  Life, Inspire

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• Insanity is contagious.

  Joseph Heller

  Contagious

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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