Insanity Quotes (871 quotes)

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity

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“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: humor, insanity

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“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: insanity, madness, qotd, reality

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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: insanity, society

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“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

tags: craziness, insanity, perspective, reality, sanity

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“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, insanity, madness

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“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: insanity, stupidity

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“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

tags: brinksmanship, crazy, crisis, insanity

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“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: insanity, love, marriage

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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems

tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity

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“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

tags: insanity, women

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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity

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“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

tags: humor, insanity, sanity

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“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: insanity

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“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: insanity, inspiration

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“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: emotions, heart, insanity, love, rationality, reason

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“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: babyghosts, insanity, misunderstandings, sisters

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“I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: insanity, sanity

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“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: cage, insanity

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“I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.”
― Libba Bray

tags: blog-post, humor, insanity

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“First sign of madness, talking to your own head.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: insanity, madness

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“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: insanity, misattributed, perseverance, sanity

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“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

tags: drunkenness, insanity

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“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

tags: humor, insanity, religion, war

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“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: insanity

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