Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susanna Kaysen

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Thomas Szasz

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

Toni Morrison

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

Tim Dorsey

I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.

Tom Robbins

There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.

Tom Ford

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

Stephen Covey

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Scott Adams

I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.

We are very, very pleased the jury was able to see through this insanity defense, ... It was a stack of excuses.

Regina Spektor

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

Paulo Coelho

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.

Rita Mae Brown

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Richard Pryor

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

Robin Williams

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

Robin Williams

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

Virginia Woolf

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Henry David Thoreau

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.

Jeff Lindsay

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

Georges Bernanos

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Eminem

Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.

Graham Greene

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Horace

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.

George Bernard Shaw

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

George Orwell

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Errol Morris

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

H. P. Lovecraft

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

Mojo Nixon

When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.

Guillermo del Toro

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

Francis Schaeffer

I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

Ian Frazier

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

Wilbur Smith

I don't think there has been a jury verdict for insanity in my 35 years.