Quotes and Sayings About Insanity
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It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Sparta must be regarded as the first völkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.
-- Adolf Hitler -
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
-- Alain de Botton -
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
-- Aleister Crowley -
One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
-- Alexander Herzen