Quotes of Insanity - somelinesforyou

“ Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ”

- Jim Morrison

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

- Albert Einstein

“ Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. ”

- George Santayana

“ But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ This is very midsummer madness. - Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Much Madness is divinest Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness —. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be. ”

- Don Quixote

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

- Richard Thompson

“ I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. ”

- William Shakespeare

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

- Oscar Levant

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

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ Love, n - A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. ”

- Nathaniel Emmons

“ The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ”

- Ian Fleming

“ For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. ”

- John Dryden

“ Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the most cruel. ”

- Georges Bernanos

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

- Steve Landesberg

“ Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. ”

- Samuel Levenson

“ There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity. ”

- William Allen White

“ Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. ”

- James Anthony Froude

“ 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
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