Insanity Quotes

Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

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

When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.

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.

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

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

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

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

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

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

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

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.

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

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

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

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

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

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.

I teach that all men are mad.

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

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

Insanity is catching.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

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

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

Insanity is just a state of mind.

Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.

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

Is it time for your medication or mine?

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

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

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.

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

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

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

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

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.

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.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?