Insanity Quotes - Page 27

• Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Mother, Justice, Diversity

  Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Keys, Enough

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• Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.

  Bob Dylan

  Uncles, War, Vietnam

  Song: Legionnaire's Disease

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• Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, People, Ordinary

  "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

  William Blake

  Angel, Fire, Looks

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Vision

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• The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Understanding, Lapses, Paganism

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• You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day. I remember the first time we got off one of our first big tours, I told my guys, "Go home to your girlfriends." The next day, all my guys texted me like, "Do you wanna, like, do something? Let's all go bowling. I can't hang with people that live normal lives."

  Lzzy Hale

  Girlfriend, Home, Next Day

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Heart, Hands, Guilt

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.325

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Religious, Drinking, Hysteria

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

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• Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results.

  Starhawk

  Inspirational, Crazy, Mad

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• There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

  Sidney Cohen

  Thinking, Circles, Mind

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• I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

  Tibor Kalman

  Imperfection, Flying, Attention

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• A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

  Arthur Miller

  Ideas, Important, Firsts

  1958 The Collected Plays,'Introduction, II'.

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• Life. Consider the alternative.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Life, Death, Alternatives

  1968 War and Peace in the Global Village.

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• Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

  Luther Burbank

  Theology, Positive Atheism

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• The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

  Luther Burbank

  God, Ideas, People

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• Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wine, Reason, Crime

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• A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Funny, Hands, Done

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• The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour.

  Martin Luther

  Suicide, Liars, Suicidal

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• People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

  Don Johnson

  Divorce, People, Alcohol

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

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• I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.

  Tom Ford

  Perfectionist

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• Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Successful, Wish, Firsts

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• Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

  Richard Ford

  Order, Style, Stories

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• Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Madness, Discerning

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

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