Insanity Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

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

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

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

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.

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

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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

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

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

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what you know about 15-year-old boy behavior. But in 2018, we'll have self-driving cars, and it will be so much better. My son may be the last generation of kids who learns to drive.

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.

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.

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.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

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

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

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

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.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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.

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

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.

I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never seem to know how to do it. Every book is different and takes a different structure, style, process, etc. And relearning how to write is where the insanity comes from.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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.

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.

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

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

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

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

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.

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

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

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Somebody may be very clearly psychotic and have a history of behaviors that establish the person was ... delusional, but that doesn't get you to insanity the way the law looks at it.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

You'd like to know me well, but I've got things inside my head that even I can't face.

I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

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

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

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

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

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

Have sanity with the necessary rather than insanity with the unnecessary.

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.

If this woman doesn't meet the test of insanity in this state, then nobody does. We might as well wipe it from the books.

We've been trying to do this thing one way for a long, long time, and it doesn't work. The definition of insanity is to continue to repeat the same behavior and expect different results.

I think when you lose a child, pretty much you're willing to do anything to get that child back or the memory of that child back, to actually cross that line, ... you're never quite sure. Do they just go into this kind of crazed insanity because of the pain? Or is it really true? It's a fine line.

I think there's a lot of crazy stuff on the Internet. You read stuff that is wild speculation, and there's an element of it that makes me not trust it because there's this undercurrent of insanity to it sometimes.

I think it's part of that heritage or that tradition of the creative artist trying to reconcile the insanity and ruthlessness of the artistic process with living a sane and socially acceptable existence.

I think it's insanity to not buckle up.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

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

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

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

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

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.

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.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.

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.

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.

I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.

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

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

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

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

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Insanity is a lack of proportion.

At night I wake up with my sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head.

From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.