Browsing Topic Best Insanity Quotes

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.

There is always some madness in love.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

To die for a cause is insanity; man’s greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man’s life?

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Insanity laughs under pressure we’re cracking. Can’t we give ourselves one more chance? Why can’t we give love that one more chance? Why can’t we give love? Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word and love dares you to care for. The people on the edge of the night and love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves. This is our last dance. This is our last dance. This is ourselves under pressure

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Insanity is arguing with reality.

New studies show that 100% of all smokers die.

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.

They must find it difficult … those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ;When young and old are taught in Falsehood’s school:–And the man who dares to tell the truth,Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

Insanity is contagious.

If you remain conventional and don’t change, you’ll get along. You’ll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You’ll never be able to keep a marriage together, you’ll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn’t together.

Religion is a collective insanity.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity – except in politics where it’s called leadership.

The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream

What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

In the late ’70s I started to search for the perfect sound – whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock’n’roll lifestyle.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry’s (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.