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I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.
Sep 10, 2025
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.
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.
John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.
Genius is insanity right up until it works.
Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.
That's insanity. We must be good all the time.
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
The step between genius and insanity is very short.
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.
What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)
If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.
Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don’t you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)
If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.
Insanity makes the rivers flow.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
Oh, yeah, insanity ran deep in the roots of that family tree.’ (Talon)
Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt
Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.
She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.
People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.
There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.
We're going off the rails on a crazy train.
Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.
He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.
The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.
They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.
Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking Can't we give ourselves one more chance Why can't we give love that one more chance Why can't we give love Cause love's such an old fashioned word and love dares you to care for The people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves This is our last dance This is our last dance This is ourselves Under pressure
Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.
I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour.
He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.