Insanity Quotes - Page 14

• The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

  Ray Davies

  Tree, Coconuts, Ease

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• Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Therapy, Wraps, Popping

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• Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

  C. J. Anderson

  Lord

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• Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Financial, Bigs

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• Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

  Richard Kadrey

  Able, Contradiction, Embrace

  Richard Kadrey (2015). “Butcher Bird”, p.240, Booklassic

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• Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

  Aldous Huxley

  Individual, Collectives, Immune

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• Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Ninety Nine, People

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

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• Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Sick, Sparta

  "Hitler's Secret Book". Grove Press softcover book, 1961.

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• Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Doe, T Shirt

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.113, Macmillan

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• Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Insane, Life Is

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• Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

  George Orwell

  Minorities, Lunatic, Lunacy

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Names, People

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• He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

  Brandon Sanderson

  No Excuses, Behavior, Found

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.847, Macmillan

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• And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

  Jack Kerouac

  Garden, Thinking, Nuts

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• One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Genius, World

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• Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Majority, Madness

  "Much madness is divinest sense" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

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• That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Falling In Love, Oxytocin, Drug

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• He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

  Dodie Smith

  Long, May, Littles

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.345, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Accepting, Easier, Unconsciousness

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.149, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Disease, Human Condition, Alcoholics

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

  Edvard Munch

  Angel, Artist, Disease

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• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Enlightenment, Challenging The Status Quo

  "A chat about the novel 'Fight Club'". www.cnn.com. October 27, 1999.

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• The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

  Alexander Pope

  Running, Mad, Saint

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 1, Epistle 6 (1738) l. 27

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