Insanity Quotes - page 3

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other So with sanity and insanity. (Herman Melville)
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. View quote
Murray Leinster
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more. View quote
Oskar Schindler
To recognize one's own insanity, is of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. View quote
Mark Twain
The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity. View quote
Otto Weininger
but 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. View quote
Akira Kurosawa
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. View quote
Cate Blanchett
Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Insanity runs in my family, it practically gallops. View quote
Cary Grant
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity. (C. S. Lewis)
The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity. View quote
Errol Morris
The difference between insanity and genius is success. View quote
Bruce Feirstein
Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty. View quote
Rhys Bowen
Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane. View quote
Sarah Kane
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets. View quote
Tess Gerritsen
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. View quote
Philip K. Dick
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago? (Charles Cooley)
I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.' (Talon) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon