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 -
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.
-- Alice Cooper -
Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.
-- Alice Cooper -
She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.
-- Alice Cooper -
Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.
-- Alice Cooper -
Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.
-- Alice Paul -
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.
-- Alton Brown -
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.
-- Amy Adams -
Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
-- Andrea Gibson -
We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.
-- Anita Roddick -
I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.
-- Anuj -
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
-- Apuleius -
Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
-- Ariana Franklin -
To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
-- Aristotle