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Quotes about Insanity

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from inside!

Rumi
Source: Trans. Barks, Coleman et al. The Essential Rumi
Contributed by: Rebecca George. More quotes added by Rebecca from all sources
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"I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity"

Edgar Allan Poe
 
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I couldn't drive you insane, you were behind the wheel the whole time. In your life, I ride shotgun.

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Source: A thought from the book "The Newborn" (not yet published)
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When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

Nelson Mandela : South African leader
Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
 
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  
-- Albert Einstein

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Source: Albert Einstein
Contributed by: dr fortini. More quotes added by aanihwa from all sources
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every moment of it!

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Source: don't know...author unknown!
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Never accept an invitation to go crazy.

Abby's Dad
 
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To jump without a net is the scariest thing imaginable and it's the essence of courage. To weave a net first the essence of intelligence. The Definition of Insanity is to jump believing you can weave the net midair.

Raphie : Raphie Frank :: Business Artivist
Raphie Frank
 
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Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.

Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - )
Source: Hunter S. Thompson
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
Source: http://www3.thinkexist.com/quotes/john_lennon/
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All human beings are out of their f--g minds, every single last one of them.

Albert Ellis
Source: The New Yorker
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
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In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and he fell attempting to dismount.  Now the horse kicked him in the head, and I feared for his safety, but Ecthgow laughed and kicked the horse back.

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Michael Crichton
Source: Eaters of the Dead
Contributed by: Brian David. More quotes added by Brondu from this | all sources
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You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

Eckhart Tolle : Gaia Child
Eckhart Tolle
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca : Spanish-born Roman (Stoic) philosopher, statesman & tutor of Nero
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
Source: Letters from a Stoic
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
 
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Dreaming premits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement
 
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Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

W. C. Fields (1879 - 1946)
 
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Walking, walking on the tight-rope of insanity Walking, walking on the verge of losing your mind.

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Source: The Box
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In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.

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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco (1932 - )
Source: The Name of the Rose
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Umberto Eco (1932 - )
Source: The Island of the Day Before, Chapter 28
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

Thomas Stearns Eliot : British-American poet & critic
T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
 
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[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions.

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993)
Source: Dissenting opinion in 6-3 ruling regarding juries in capital cases, 5 May 86
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The judge asked, "What do you plead?" I said, "Insanity, your honor. Who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?"

Steven Wright : Canadian comedian
Steven Wright (1955 - )
 
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I bought a dog the other day. . . . I named him Stay. It's fun to call him. . . . "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.

Steven Wright : Canadian comedian
Steven Wright (1955 - )
 
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All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic herbals for ceramic cats.

Steven Wright : Canadian comedian
Steven Wright (1955 - )
 
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Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Steve Landesberg
 
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I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (1930 - )
Source: A Little Night Music
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard : Danish philosopher
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
 
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