Insanity

(117 votes)   All of us are crazy in one way or another.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(88 votes)   Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Nathaniel Emmons

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(88 votes)   You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher

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(85 votes)   There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

William Allen White
1868-1944, American Editor, Writer

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(82 votes)   I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(80 votes)   Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(80 votes)   Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.

William Cowper
1731-1800, British Poet

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(78 votes)   Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(71 votes)   Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.

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(65 votes)   I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.

Waylon Jennings

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(64 votes)   The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(58 votes)   Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(57 votes)   For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(57 votes)   Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(44 votes)   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
1936-, American Actor, Director

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