Insanity Quotes

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity. (Aristotle)
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. View quote
Albert Einstein
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. View quote
Ray Bradbury
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. View quote
Oscar Levant
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. View quote
Ronald David Laing
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, 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. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
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. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
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. View quote
John Lennon
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)
Insanity is contagious. View quote
Joseph Heller
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. View quote
Hal Clement
Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids. View quote
Erma Bombeck
There is a fine line between insanity and genius. View quote
Dan Brown
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets. View quote
Tippi Hedren
Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. View quote
Tippi Hedren
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is-and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity. View quote
Harlan Coben
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity? View quote
Jon Ronson
Acting is a way of living out one's insanity. (Isabelle Huppert)
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. View quote
Richard Thompson
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner. View quote
Barry Mann
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. View quote
Mercedes McCambridge