Insanity Quotes - Page 6

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

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

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

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

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

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.

If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

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.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

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

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.

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

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.

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.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

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.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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

Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

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

In my madness I see your face in mine.

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