All things considered, insanity is the only alternative.
-Variously
attributed
As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered
that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and
insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity.
-James
Agee
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong
religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark
morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
-H.P.
Lovecraft
For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary
insanity, a short-lived state of autosuggestion.
-Robert Sheckley
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
-Steve
Landesberg
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration
and insanity for centuries.
-Patty Duke
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
-Variously
attributed
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.
-Desiderius
Erasmus
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but
they've always worked for me.
-Hunter S. Thompson
I plead contemporary insanity.(T-shirt)
-Variously attributed
I'm no preacher but I can tell you this- the lives that people lead are
driving them crazy and their insanity comes out in the way they drive.
-Charles
Bukowski
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is
reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go
mad, and cashiers, but creative artists very seldom.
-G.K.
Chesterton
In an individual one would regard it as evidence of insanity to see
someone repeatedly undertaking enterprises that resulted in his losing
precisely what he claimed he was trying to achieve; it is not less
lunatic to do it on the international scale, but if you've been catching
the news lately you'll have noticed it's being done more than ever.
-John
Brunner
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive
restaurant.
-Arundhati Roy
Insanity in the individual is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and
epochs, it is the rule.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Insanity is contagious.
-Joseph Heller
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting
different results.
-Rita Mae Brown
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a raise.
-Robert
Brault
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
-Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
-Ray
Bradbury
Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of
insanity?
-Arthur C. Clarke
Madness may be a sane response to an insane world, and insanity breeds
special perceptions.
-R.D. Laing
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.
-Variously
attributed
Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.
-Charles Manson
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and
delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
-Taylor
Caldwell
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
-Ian
Fleming
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music
that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats
can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to
listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
-Henry
Rollins
Theism is the only legal form of insanity.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this
line.
-Oscar Levant
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
-William
Allen White
To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
-Anaïs Nin
Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.
-Poul Anderson
When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human
history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological
freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionary
process. The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur
independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a
reflection of man's awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive
hunch that somewhere along the line of his ascent something has gone
wrong.
-Arthur Koestler
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When
many people suffer from a delusion, it is called Religion.
-Robert
Pirsig
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid
surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies,
the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who
would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
-Rachel
Carson
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
-Henry
Rollins
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