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Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.
If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.
It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.
Insanity does NOT run in my family. It strolls through, takes it's time, and gets to know everyone personally - T-Shirt
In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.
... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?
Eurovision' lifts you off your feet - and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.
Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.
I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.
All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.
As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.
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.
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path.
Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.
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.
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.
Seriously, I was the wrong fit at ESPN. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
I think everything is its own beast. I think every project has its own unique insanity, and I think that's what's really fun about it.
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.
I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.
I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.