Insanity Quotes - Page 21

• All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Philosopher, Delusional, Thrive

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• I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

  Christian Bale

  Commitment, People, Looks

  "A Nice Quiet Chat with Christian Bale" by Andrew Corsello, www.gq.com. April 30, 2009.

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• Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and more sick that only humans make it into our calculations... Annihilate life on earth, but save the nation... what's the subject heading? Stupidity or Insanity?

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Sick, Long

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I do have my concerns for mankind as a species. Way I see it, humans are in transition. Accelerating at f**king light speed into some new insanity, and no one really knows how it's going to turn out.

  Murdoc Niccals

  Speed, Mankind, Concern

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're free. The insanity is that we live inside of the false stories that we tell each other.

  Jodie Evans

  Democracy, Pretending

  Source: progressive.org

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• Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the majority of Germans throughout the 1930s and World War II; and by the countless countries, communities and individuals who collaborated with the vast constellation of Hitler's monsters in the gruesome murder of well over 60% of European Jewry. Codex Orféo reminds us that the root of that insanity is continuing in the form of contemporary Holocausts against other species, with equally systematic, atrocious and inexplicable madness.

  Michael Tobias

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

  Paul Madonna

  People, Absurdity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We know exactly where the path to despair and insanity lies. It's in that sense that life is meaningless, there's nothing about today that's worth doing because it's just like yesterday and it's going to be just like tomorrow.

  Ian Bogost

  Lying, Yesterday, Despair

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Levels, Certain

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• Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.

  Grant Bowler

  Moving, Thinking, Order

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.

  Jo Beverley

  Believe, Writing, Fiction

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• It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

  Tippi Hedren

  Cat, Pet, Missions

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• Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

  Tippi Hedren

  Animal, Captivity, Legislation

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• I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

  Andy Garcia

  Children, Responsibility, Choices

  "Man of Style - Andy Garcia". Interview with Mark Morrison, In Style magazine, www.oocities.org. January 1999.

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• I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

  Alex Hirsch

  Individual, Relentless

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's also something that is often mistaken for enlightenment which is a kind of insanity. Often, people will have some kind of weird experience which is quite abnormal and think, "Oh my God, that's it, I understand everything" because they start seeing things in a very weird way and think that's how enlightened people see things as well.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, People, Enlightenment

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• A lot of seriously insane people have managed to acquire huge followings based on the idea that their insanity is a kind of enlightenment. An obvious example would be Charles Manson or Shoko Asahara who is the person responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

  Brad Warner

  Ideas, People, Insane

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking about what that means, one of the definitions of insanity is that you lose your ability to communicate to anybody because your frames of reference have become so different from the rest of the world that you can't communicate anymore.

  Brad Warner

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Running, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States - and elsewhere.

  Tina Fey

  Children, Stress, College

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www-s1.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Running, Phones, Cells

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day. Killers may be disturbed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't tell right from wrong or are compelled to maim or murder.

  Park Dietz

  Mean, People, Killers

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The definition of insanity is doing the same thing with the same result over and over again, expecting something different. The left just spent how many months trying to destroy Donald Trump, trying to impugn Donald Trump with every weapon they had, with every trick in their book, every tactic that has been successfully used by the media to destroy Republican candidates over the years. It's in their playbook. They brought it all out. Every bit of it blew up in their face; all of it failed. And yet they continue with the same tried and true and worn-out techniques to discredit Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Trying, Different

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

  Henry Rollins

  Temporary Insanity, Needs, Littles

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

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• Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Creation, Needles

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