Quotes with insanity

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

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  • William Blake As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
    delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
    which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
    I collected some of their Proverbs.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 74
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Herzen Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ben Huh Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • James Tyler Kent He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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  • Desiderius Erasmus I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Aldous Huxley Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Nathanael Emmons Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Sam Levenson Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Sam Levenson Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
    Sam Levenson
    American author (1911 - 1980)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Albert Einstein Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barbara Kruger 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
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Albert Camus Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • William Allen White There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Oscar Levant There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Billy Collins Wars begin through greed and vanity and are continued through the insanity of nationalism in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
    Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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