Insanity Quotes - page 9

Psychopaths [make] the world go around... society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness... I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity? (Jon Ronson)
The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity. View quote
Lawrence Osborne
Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity. View quote
Spike Jonze
... the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage ... the sutras say, 'Mind is the teaching.' But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity. View quote
Bodhidharma
We have reached a level of insanity and delusion, to take a situation from the battlefield, when soldiers are under stress and explosive devices are being thrown at them and attempts are being made to infiltrate, and to take their human response and judge them from the armchairs in Tel Aviv? View quote
Gilad Erdan
It's a quality show and I think it came along at the right time, America wanted something stupid after the insanity of 9/11. The SpongeBob character is a naïve idiot but he also has a heart. He's a dumb, well-meaning person, like Forrest Gump or Jerry Lewis. View quote
Mr. Lawrence
Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met. View quote
Rose McGowan
Die to the world, repudiating the insanity that pervades it. Live to God, and by apprehending God, apprehend your own nature as a spiritual being created in his image. View quote
Tatian
There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it. View quote
Alethea Kontis
Insanity makes the rivers flow. View quote
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity. (Andrew Young)
In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it. View quote
Dory Previn
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn. View quote
Dario Argento
No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days. View quote
Evan Daugherty
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. View quote
Isobelle Carmody
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops. View quote
Joseph Kesselring
Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense. View quote
Josh Lieb
Religion is induced insanity. View quote
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education. View quote
Clarice Taylor
My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity. (John Romaniello)
We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity. View quote
Peter Criss
The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity. View quote
Rafer Johnson
I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it. View quote
Tim Dorsey
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. View quote
Richard Kadrey