Insanity Quotes - Page 30

• The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Accomplished, Scientology, Conditions

  "Psychosis". Scientology Bulletin, November 28, 1970.

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• I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat.

  Glenn Hughes

  Soul, Fascination, Bending

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• Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Magic, Rising, Let Me

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

  Herman Melville

  Mean, Mad, Motive

  Herman Melville (1983). “The best of Herman Melville”, Book Sales

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• Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required for governments and business to be considered successful. This is a form of insanity. Economics is at the heart of our destructive ways and our faith in it has blinded us

  David Suzuki

  Heart, Successful, Technology

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• Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

  Alexander Herzen

  Childhood, Borders, Individualism

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• More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous promotion of Shenandoah and Blue Ridge was to stand as the pinnacle of new era finance. It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Blue, August, Imagination

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.

  Mac Miller

  Men, Needs, Quests

  Song: I'll Be There, 2011

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

  Robin Williams

  Might, Tacos, Combination

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• There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Genius, Elements, Madness

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• Madness is no madness when shared.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Madness

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Individualized Society”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• Maybe I am a bit mad.

  Simon Cowell

  Mad, Bits

  "Who's been stealing from Simon Cowell's human buffet table?" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2009.

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• Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Acting, Way

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

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• All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.

  T.I.

  Winning, Use, Panic

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• When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

  Dave Matthews

  Reflection, Mirrors, Pages

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• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ties, Perception

  1876 Letters and Social Aims,'The Comic'.

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• I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!

  Vincent of Lerins

  Men, Errors, Lust

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• Insanity is arguing with reality.

  Byron Katie

  Reality, Arguing

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• It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.

  Anita Roddick

  Crazy, Believe, People

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• We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

  Anita Roddick

  Clever, Entrepreneur, Soul

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• One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Kings, Rebel, Usurpers

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, November 13, 1792.

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• Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

  Steven Millhauser

  Space, Mad, Silence

  Steven Millhauser (2011). “Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright”, p.28, Vintage

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• But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

  Apuleius

  Existence, Blindness, Sensible

  Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics

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• A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.

  J. Christopher Herold

  Princess, Heart, Men

  J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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