Insanity Quotes - Page 15

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw yourself against a window, or to repeatedly open that window, believing the creatures that are throwing themselves against it might come into your house, take a look around, and leave with no hard feelings?

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

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.

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

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

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.

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to be influenced, subtly, by everything I read, like a sponge. But then, what writers aren't? Being a literary sponge is one of the prerequisites for this insanity.

Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

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

Me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream.

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

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

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

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

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

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

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.