Insanity Quotes - Page 8

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

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

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

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

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

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

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.

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

...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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

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

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

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

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

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

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

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

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.

Twitter. Honestly, that's all I really have to say to explain insanity.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. A life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?