Quotes about Insanity

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Votes: 6

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Votes: 6

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Votes: 4

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. Votes: 4

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. Votes: 4

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Votes: 4

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Votes: 4

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Votes: 4

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Votes: 4

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Votes: 4

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. Votes: 4

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Insanity is catching. Votes: 3

Insanity is contagious. Votes: 3

'Insanity... I like it." Votes: 3

Insanity makes the rivers flow. Votes: 3

Insanity is arguing with reality. Votes: 3

Insanity is coasting through life... Votes: 3

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. Votes: 3

Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity. Votes: 3

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not. Votes: 3

Insanity is the insistence on meaning. Votes: 3

Insanity is a lack of proportion. Votes: 3

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm? Votes: 3

Insanity is just a state of mind. Votes: 3

Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love... Votes: 3

You have to dig SEEEEERIOUSLY deep in Insanity MAX:30! Votes: 3

Insanity Max 30 is the hardest workout I've ever taught. Votes: 3

Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results. Votes: 3

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form. Votes: 3

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not. Votes: 3

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. Votes: 3

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world. Votes: 3

Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker Votes: 3

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets. Votes: 3

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist. Votes: 3

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense. Votes: 3

Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me. Votes: 3

Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm? Votes: 3

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant. Votes: 3

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. Votes: 3

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. Votes: 3

There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot. Votes: 3

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. Votes: 3

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real. Votes: 3

What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick) Votes: 3

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. Votes: 3

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it." Votes: 3

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. Votes: 3

Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time. Votes: 3

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie. Votes: 3

Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt Votes: 3

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it. Votes: 3

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. Votes: 3

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts. Votes: 3

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what. Votes: 3

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. Votes: 3

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Votes: 3

Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow. Votes: 3

Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them. Votes: 3

Later, he would ask later who Attila was. Now he only wanted Belial's kiss. His heat. His passion. A quick gallop. Frenzied eternity. Insanity multiplied. A perfect, mind-numbing, bone-shattering small death. He wanted it all. Now. Now. Now. Votes: 3

...we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep.... Votes: 3

I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites. Votes: 3

Control your life through insanity. Votes: 2

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. Votes: 2

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Votes: 2

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Votes: 2

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. Votes: 2

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. Votes: 2

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Votes: 2

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. Votes: 2

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Votes: 2

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know. Votes: 2

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. Votes: 2

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Votes: 2

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Votes: 2

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas. Votes: 2

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Votes: 2

We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity. Votes: 2

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. Votes: 2

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'? Votes: 2

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. Votes: 2

I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time. Votes: 2

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Votes: 2

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. Votes: 2

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin. Votes: 2

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want. Votes: 2

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option. Votes: 2

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 1

Perception determines insanity... Votes: 0

... insanity is never reasonable. Votes: 0

Religion is collective insanity. Votes: 0

In loquaciousness lay insanity. Votes: 0

Religion is induced insanity. Votes: 0

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. Votes: 0

Religion is insanity by consensus. Votes: 0

Religion is a collective insanity. Votes: 0

Innocence is a kind of insanity Votes: 0

Genius and insanity are fraternal twins. Votes: 0

My passion for fashion borders on insanity. Votes: 0

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity. Votes: 0

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity. Votes: 0

Poetry is the purest form of insanity. Votes: 0

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. Votes: 0

This is insanity!""No, this is scholarship! Votes: 0

Genius is insanity right up until it works. Votes: 0

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity. Votes: 0

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Votes: 0

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity. Votes: 0

... years of insanity have made this guy crazy! Votes: 0

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. Votes: 0

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity. Votes: 0

Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity. Votes: 0

I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity. Votes: 0

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity. Votes: 0

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything. Votes: 0

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness? Votes: 0

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity. Votes: 0

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity. Votes: 0

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior. Votes: 0

When you are given hope, insanity becomes an excuse. Votes: 0

The step between genius and insanity is very short. Votes: 0

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity. Votes: 0

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity. Votes: 0

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity. Votes: 0

There is a fine line between insanity and genius. Votes: 0

Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world. Votes: 0

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? Votes: 0

The conquered roam free in the box of insanity. Votes: 0

That's insanity. We must be good all the time. Votes: 0

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play. Votes: 0

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. Votes: 0

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play. Votes: 0

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. Votes: 0

I think every genius person has a bit of insanity. Votes: 0

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity. Votes: 0

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity Votes: 0

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity. Votes: 0

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity Votes: 0

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself. Votes: 0

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity. Votes: 0

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity. Votes: 0

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane Votes: 0

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain. Votes: 0

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. Votes: 0

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. Votes: 0

A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity. Votes: 0

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's. Votes: 0

It is insanity to run from God and search for love. Votes: 0

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity. Votes: 0

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity. Votes: 0

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success Votes: 0

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it. Votes: 0

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases. Votes: 0

Twitter. Honestly, that's all I really have to say to explain insanity. Votes: 0

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. Votes: 0

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius ... Votes: 0

I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming. Votes: 0

The space involving insanity and genius is calculated only by good results. Votes: 0

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. Votes: 0

The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now Votes: 0

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity. Votes: 0

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity. Votes: 0

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity. Votes: 0

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. Votes: 0

Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation. Votes: 0

The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure. Votes: 0

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition. Votes: 0

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity. Votes: 0

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow. Votes: 0

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries. Votes: 0

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity. Votes: 0

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity. Votes: 0

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it. Votes: 0

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane Votes: 0

I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it. Votes: 0

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it Votes: 0

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity. Votes: 0

Loving you was hard, wanting you was harder, but kissing your forehead was insanity. Votes: 0

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation. Votes: 0

When the war begins, talking is insanity , Just take your weapon and kill humanity! Votes: 0

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. Votes: 0

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity. Votes: 0

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets. Votes: 0

Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death. Votes: 0

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music. Votes: 0

Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon) Votes: 0

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Votes: 0

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. Votes: 0

Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown. Votes: 0

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride. Votes: 0

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged. Votes: 0

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God. Votes: 0

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind. Votes: 0

Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity. Votes: 0

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times. Votes: 0

Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone. Votes: 0

Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other. Votes: 0

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out. Votes: 0

The truth exposes some people so deeply, their last defense is to front a carefree insanity. Votes: 0

No way to get away. No way to get away. Little change to sneak away... insanity. Votes: 0

Sometimes, it takes just a moment of insanity to decide the course of our whole life. Votes: 0

Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity. Votes: 0

PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACKLike a YO YO!! Votes: 0

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of... Votes: 0

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. Votes: 0

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. Votes: 0

He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859? Votes: 0

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity. Votes: 0

When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity. Votes: 0

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely. Votes: 0

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity. Votes: 0

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity. Votes: 0

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity. Votes: 0

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves. Votes: 0

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. Votes: 0

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else. Votes: 0

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand. Votes: 0

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity. Votes: 0

Hate is a powerful emotion. It can take over a sane man's mind and cloud it with insanity. Votes: 0

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear. Votes: 0

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. Votes: 0

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. Votes: 0

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity. Votes: 0

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. Votes: 0

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is? Votes: 0

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too. Votes: 0

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. Votes: 0

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. Votes: 0

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one. Votes: 0

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff. Votes: 0

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. Votes: 0

I know all about insanity. It's not that bad once you beat up everyone who teases you about it. Votes: 0

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Votes: 0

John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity. Votes: 0

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity". Votes: 0

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity. Votes: 0

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with? Votes: 0

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away. Votes: 0

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. Votes: 0

Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity. Votes: 0

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. Votes: 0

They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty. Votes: 0

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? Votes: 0

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Votes: 0

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty. Votes: 0

I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over. Votes: 0

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. Votes: 0

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. Votes: 0

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it. Votes: 0

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world. Votes: 0

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know. Votes: 0

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves. Votes: 0

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. Votes: 0

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner. Votes: 0

Obsession is like a pretty, little, picket fence that offers itself up as a thin line--a separation between ingenuity and insanity. Votes: 0

Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are. Votes: 0

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. Votes: 0

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. Votes: 0

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad. Votes: 0

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. Votes: 0

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. Votes: 0

That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy. Votes: 0

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago? Votes: 0

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? Votes: 0

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity Votes: 0

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear. Votes: 0

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it. Votes: 0

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since. Votes: 0

If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head. Votes: 0

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies. Votes: 0

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it. Votes: 0

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. Votes: 0

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease. Votes: 0

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God Votes: 0

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. Votes: 0

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion. Votes: 0

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. Votes: 0

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing. Votes: 0

We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts. Votes: 0

I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you. Votes: 0

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world. Votes: 0

Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria. Votes: 0

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity. Votes: 0

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street Votes: 0

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity. Votes: 0

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. Votes: 0

Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series. Votes: 0

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. Votes: 0

You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity. Votes: 0

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free. Votes: 0

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity. Votes: 0

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost. Votes: 0

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it. Votes: 0

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity. Votes: 0

There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity defense. Votes: 0

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible. Votes: 0

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. Votes: 0

We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity. Votes: 0

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same. Votes: 0

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one. Votes: 0

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity. Votes: 0

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull. Votes: 0

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. Votes: 0

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days. Votes: 0

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth. Votes: 0

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage. Votes: 0

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity. Votes: 0

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology. Votes: 0

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. Votes: 0

You have the insanity that is geo-engineering which is a case in which you say the planet is heating up. Let's spray some aerosol and cool it down. Votes: 0

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity. Votes: 0

Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively. Votes: 0

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head. Votes: 0

War is nothing more than organized insanity. That's why crazy and unexpected tactics work most of the time. When they don't, we won't live to tell about it. Votes: 0

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable. Votes: 0

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met. Votes: 0

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic Votes: 0

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership. Votes: 0

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there. Votes: 0

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time. Votes: 0

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity. Votes: 0

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once. Votes: 0

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness. Votes: 0

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity. Votes: 0

Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it. Votes: 0

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal. Votes: 0

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity. Votes: 0

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan. Votes: 0

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity. Votes: 0

What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill. Votes: 0

And the council doesn't recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life. Votes: 0

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election. Votes: 0

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time. Votes: 0

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that's insanity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don't you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek) Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. Votes: 0

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat. Votes: 0

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now. Votes: 0

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity. Votes: 0

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle. Votes: 0

I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity. Votes: 0

Radio Wave Sickness and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity are easily preventable and one can only wonder how much longer the insanity of modern governments is going to be allowed to continue in this area. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels. Votes: 0

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever. Votes: 0

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well. Votes: 0

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person. Votes: 0

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity. Votes: 0

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there. Votes: 0

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge. Votes: 0

War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug. Votes: 0

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers. Votes: 0

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis. Votes: 0

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health... Votes: 0

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness. Votes: 0

Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself. Votes: 0

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses. Votes: 0

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident. Votes: 0

To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life? Votes: 0

The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity. Votes: 0

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity. Votes: 0

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology. Votes: 0

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0