Top 607 Insanity Quotes & Sayings

Insanity is arguing with reality.

Insanity is contagious.

Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

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

Insanity makes the rivers flow.

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

... years of insanity have made this guy crazy!

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

Perception determines insanity.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

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.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

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.

Religion is induced insanity.

We are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There's a very close analogue there.

'Insanity... I like it."

My passion for fashion borders on insanity.

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

Insanity is catching.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Control your life through insanity.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

Religion is collective insanity.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity of existence: that nobody escapes scot-free. We're all going to wind up - at the best-case scenario - 80, 85, 90, broken, in pain, and feeling like it was all a dream and not really understanding the point of any of it.

Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Religion is a collective insanity.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

Insanity is coasting through life.