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Quotes about Insanity


The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thine was the prophet's vision, thine
The exaltation, the divine
Insanity of noble minds,
That never falters nor abates,
But labors and endures and waits,
Till all that it foresees it finds
Or what it can not find creates.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was the agony of knowing that it was departed, all, the insanity of former love, leaving behind this deadly godlike sobriety of self-pity

Apathy at the individual level translates into insanity at the mass level.

Doug las Hofstadter

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

R. Pirsig

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Bonnie Lin

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Augustus Saint-gaudens

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Lavant

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Steve Landesberg

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

John Dryden

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

Insanity—a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Lang

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.

Dennis Hopper

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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