Insanity Quotes - Page 16

• Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

  Liane Moriarty

  Aggravation, Hovering, Form

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• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Depression, Lying, Future

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

  Bill Mauldin

  Funny, Motivation, Science

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• Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

  Steve Landesberg

  Funny, Sarcastic, Truth

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

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• They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

  Gerald Massey

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

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• 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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• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Art, Salad, Garlic

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• How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Suicide, Weed, Marijuana

  "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.

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• Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Drug, Hemp

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• This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

  Alfred von Tirpitz

  War, White, Race

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• When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

  David Sheff

  Order, Chaos, Chapters

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

  Herta Muller

  Hands, Demented, Raised

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• Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Heart, Thinking, Drawing

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1951). “Speak, memory: a memoir”

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• No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Littles, Way, Sneak

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• Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Kings, Temporary Insanity, Hands

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• She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.

  Peter Cameron

  Names, Perfect, Addiction

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.149, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Girlfriend, Mistake, Temporary Insanity

  Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

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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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• Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Roots, Tree, Yeah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.404, Macmillan

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• A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Marriage, Independent, Two

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.583, Open Road Media

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• ...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Rain, Reality, Oasis

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• Insanity makes the rivers flow.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Rivers, Flow

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “The Den of Shadows Quartet”, p.438, Delacorte Press

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• If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Insane, Very Cool, Ifs

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.307, Penguin

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