Insanity Quotes
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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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More Insanity Quotes
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
horace mann— Lecture 6
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
louis antoine de saint-just— On ne peut point régner innocemment : la folie en est trop évidente. Tout roi est un rebelle et un usurpateur.
— Sur le jugement de Louis XVI (1er discours), speech to the National Convention (November 13, 1792).
Now we are forced to recognize our inhumanity Our reason coexists with our insanity And though we choose between reality and madness It's either sadness or euphoria.
Billy Joel— Summer, Highland Falls
The self-deceived person may even think he is able to console others who became victims of perfidious deception, but what insanity when someone who himself has lost the eternal wants to heal the person who is extremely sick unto death!
— Works of Love, Hong p. 7
The craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art... Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity – I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks.
Banksy— Evening Post 2004 (taken from "Home Sweet Home - Banksy's Bristol" by Steve Wright)
Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, jazz musicians, and entertainers. Their satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death — the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.
harry j. anslinger— As quoted in Legalizing Marijuana : Drug Policy Reform and Prohibition Politics? (2004) by Rudolph Joseph Gerber, p. 9; also in Hawking Hits on the Information Highway : The Challenge of Online Drug Sales for Law Enforcement (2008) by Laura L. Finley , p. 28, and "The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana" (1994) by Jack Herer, Jeanie Cabarga, and Jeanie Herer, p. 29.
I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk – who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit.
cate blanchett— "Cate Blanchett: 'Getting Married Is Insanity'". People Magazine. January 12, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.
vanna bonta— Vanna Bonta on the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. BonNova | X PRIZE Foundation official
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.
charlie chaplin— Opening placard
The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.
hal clement— Chapter 9 (Mission of Gravity (1954))
Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
bradley denton— pp. 213-214 (Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991))
The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…
l. ron hubbard— "Psychosis" (28 November 1970)
Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
Akira Kurosawa— Akira Kurosawa, Something Like an Autobiography
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.
murray leinster— Chapter 4 (p. 45)
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
cesare lombroso— As quoted in Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution (1963) by Margot Wittkower
He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
graham greene— Pt. III, ch. 2, pg 216
Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity – brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.
lucretius— Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book I, Part III, Chapter XXVII, The Epicureans, p. 248
The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
errol morris— Source: Radiolab episode "The Fact of the Matter"
To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
anaïs nin— August 1932 Henry and June
The elements are now reversed. It is no longer the end of time and of the world which will show retrospectively that men were mad not to have been prepared for them; it is the tide of madness, its secret invasion, that shows that the world is near its final catastrophe; it is man’s insanity that invokes and makes necessary the world’s end.
— Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
I think when you’re shooting on such a tight budget and schedule, the insanity and the energy and the sense of spirit is what makes the experience unique. Ten percent more isn’t going to make enough of a difference and anything that would double the budget, triple the time then you’re making a different kind of film.
— Guerrasio, Jason (15 January 2008). "”Donkey Punch” co-writer-director, Olly Blackburn". Filmmaker Magazine (Independent Feature Project). Retrieved on 23 February 2012.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
— Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil's Dictionary.
In women, courage is often mistaken for insanity.
— Doctor in Iron Jawed Angels.
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
— Oscar Levant, as quoted in Celebrity Register : An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables (1959) by Cleveland Amory ; also paraphrased as "There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line".
The diabolical kingdom consists of those who are in the love of dominion from love of self and thence in foolishness; for this love is opposite to celestial love, and its foolishness is opposite to celestial wisdom; but the satanic kingdom consists of those who are in the love of dominion from the pride of their own intelligence, and thence in insanity; for this love is opposite to spiritual love, and its insanity is opposite to spiritual intelligence.
— Emanuel Swedenborg (1766/1925) The Apocalypse Revealed. p.223
Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity – brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.
— Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book I, Part III, Chapter XXVII, The Epicureans, p. 248
insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
ray bradbury— The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop; later revised into a short story for this anthology.
insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.
— “When I came into the program, I heard that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,”
