Insanity Quotes
Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. - Proverb
All of us are crazy in one way or another. - Yiddish Proverb
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. - Mark Twain
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. - Aristotle
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. - Napoleon Bonaparte
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. - Sigmund Freud
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian
You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went. - Dennis Hopper
I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. - Waylon Jennings
Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. - Samuel Levenson
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. - Oscar Levant
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Benjamin Franklin
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. - Samuel Levenson
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. - Rita Mae Brown
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.-Oscar Levant
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.-Richard Thompson
We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.-Peter Criss
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.-Marilyn French
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.-Augustus Saint-Gaudens
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.-Friedrich Nietzsche
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.-Lou Reed
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.-R. D. Laing
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.-Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.-Sam Levenson
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.-Elizabeth Wurtzel
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.-Cary Grant
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.-Albert Einstein
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.-Malcolm Wallop
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.-Barbara Kruger
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.-Ambrose Bierce
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
Religion is induced insanity.-Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.-Edvard Munch
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.-John Lennon
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.-Bruce Feirstein
The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.-Rafer Johnson
Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.-David Shuster
There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.-Megan Gallagher