Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Quotes tagged ‘Insanity’
Leave me to my own absurdity.
To accept the insanity of our political discourse and the violence in our world as normal is to declare our own insanity.
I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.
Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity.
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
Almost relationships teach you a lot about yourself. They bring out a side of you that you thought never existed. They put you on the edge of sanity and insanity.
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
Sometimes an emotional abuser will deliberately lie to you to confuse you and make you doubt your perceptions. They will make you doubt their own observations, memory and sanity. Sometimes they will argue and wear you down until you don’t trust what you know is true.
He's been acting out ever since the breakup. If he's been pulling crazy stunts, desperately trying to show off, or has been trying to bed every single person in his path, he's trying to cover up that he's devastated. It's his way of begging for attention.
I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I’ll never be sane.
Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
— Amy Adams, Amy, amazon.com
You talk to God, you're religious; God talks to you, you're psychotic.
Collective madness is called sanity.
I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.
The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse.
Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
The white coats just don't get it. I'm a genius with a headache.