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  • 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.

    War   Stress   People  
    Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.78, Random House
  • 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.

    Taken   Fighting   Men  
    Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

    "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.
  • After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.

    Real   Writing   Heart  
  • I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

    Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub
  • Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

    Home   Odds   Insanity  
  • Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

    "Ode to Sean Hannity". Poem by John Cleese, www.dailykos.com.
  • Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.

  • Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

    Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997
  • All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria
  • Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

    Song: Young Americans
  • So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

    Art   Insanity   Fantasy  
  • The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

    Children   War   Land  
    "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.
  • We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

  • One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

    Kings   Insanity   Rebel  
    Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, November 13, 1792.
  • How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.

  • Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

    Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.149, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

  • If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

    Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.29, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • ... years of insanity have made this guy crazy!

    Funny   Crazy   Humor  
    "Don't Drink the Water", 1994.
  • It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

    Courage   Pain   Dirty  
    Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin
  • I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.

  • Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
  • 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?

    Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.448, Pan Macmillan
  • Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

    Nice   Insanity   Sticks  
    Song: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
  • This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

  • Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

    Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.207, Penguin Books India
  • Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

    Hurt   Men   Mad  
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “The Selected Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.”, Library of Alexandria
  • Killers seldom meet the legal standard for insanity, which is quite different from the way most people use the word every day. Killers may be disturbed, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't tell right from wrong or are compelled to maim or murder.

    Mean   People   Insanity  
    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.

    Dad   Crazy   People  
    "Titus / Locking Up Mom". www.imdb.com. 2000.
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