Insanity Quotes

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

Different, Same, Again

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

Hate, Alcohol, Violence

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Cary Grant

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

Sex, Everyone, Worked

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rule, Nations, Rare

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon

Great, Mind, Reality

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rule, Nations, Rare

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson

Children, Hereditary

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce

Love, Marriage, Temporary

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft

Strong, Feelings, Together

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.
Chuck Palahniuk

Fact, Might, Actually

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Henry Rollins

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mind, Often, Logic

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French

Love, Power, Yourself

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

Creativity, Means, Normal

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Laing

Insane, Adjustment, Rational

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Art, Salad, Garlic

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Knowing, Stop, Idiotic

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

Between, Genius, Line

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Desiderius Erasmus

Wife, Single, Doubt

Control your life through insanity.
Cliff Burton

Life, Control, Through

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Stephen F. Lynch

Different, Same, Again

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard Thompson

Alone, Guitar, Stand

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

Success, Between, Genius

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
Tom Cruise

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.
Shia LaBeouf

Parents, Young, Around

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.
Christian Bale

Enjoy, Seriously, Stuff

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
Billy Corgan

Music, Death, Thinking

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.
Andy Garcia

Life, Children, Choices

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch

Life, Death, Since

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