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“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”

Firsts Wish Depression Madness Mad Mental Illness Insanity Insanity And Sanity

Author:Euripides

“Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.”

Unity Insanity Love Each Other

Author:Chris Brown

“I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.”

Shows Process Absolutes Mortals Insanity

Author:Regina Spektor

“This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.”

World Two War Stories Humanity Liberty Cutting Periods Noses Insanity War Of The Worlds Two Worlds Interim

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.”

Lying Courses Insanity

Author:Anais Nin

“One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.”

Wise Insanity

Book:Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

Source: Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.”

Knows Want Feels Writing Process Natural Dangerous Approach Madness Embrace Extremes Insanity Affinity

Author:Dario Argento

“Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.”

Littles Hands Humanity Creativity Highest Insanity Originality Almighty

Author:Anuj

“The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible. I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.”

Knows Wells Dark Imagine Worst Quiet Reflection Insanity Things To Do Contemplation Contemplating Worst Things Quiet Place

Author:Tara Brown

“Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.”

Behavior Insanity Behave

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.”

World Action Form Stupidity Insanity

Book:Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering

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

“So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)”

Art Dies Fantasy Higher Insanity Schizophrenia

Author:Hermann Hesse

“War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.”

Men Looks War Brain Insanity Sane Here And There Epidemics Present Day Cholera Bowels Influenza

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.”

Enormous Insanity Liberalism Stomach Temper Delivering

Author:Taylor Caldwell

“I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Running Hours Rooms Four Week Couple Weight Work Out Insanity Hotel Trainers Dvds Hotel Rooms

Author:Fergie

“The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.”

People Thinking New York Insanity Residents

Author:John Steinbeck

“Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.”

Building Majors Foundation Structure Illness Mental Illness Insanity

Author:Norman Mailer

“Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.”

Mind Today Felt Strange Wind Illness Mental Illness Insanity Warning Brushes

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.”

Made Feelings Spiritual Century Disease Madness Critical Superiors Insanity Vehicle Sensitivity Twentieth Century Discontent

Book:Illness as metaphor

Source: Illness as metaphor

“War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?”

Humans Stills War Sin Planets Degrees Highest Sacred Human Life Insanity Miraculous Immorality Inhuman Wholesale

Author:Robert Muller

“Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.”

Firsts Shows Wish Successful Insanity Show Business Insanity And Sanity

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.”

Years Government Law Political Five Greater Effects Crime Cost Argument Insanity Five Years Republic Passages Amendments Prohibition Drunkenness Benign Boon

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.”

School Law Order Degrees Insanity Clients Law School

Author:Warren Zevon

“For men to focus on controlling women's reproduction to solve a society's problems seems nothing short of mad or, at best, superstitious. But men's superstition or insanity has real and dire consequences for the women who are its object. And states, too, home in on women's bodies, perhaps to create the illusion that men are in control of uncontrollable forces. Indeed, almost all governments try to control women's bodies and regulate their appearance in some way.”

“He plead insanity like they do now all the time. Sir, what would you have done in 1859?”

Done Politics Insanity

Author:Hank Williams, Jr.

“I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.”

Politics Insanity Stubborn

Author:Bob Dylan

“Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.”

Reason Philosophy Reality Sadness Madness Insanity Inhumanity Coexist Euphoria

Author:Billy Joel

“Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.”

Passion Felt Darkness Taken Strange Romantic Lust Insanity Inhumanity

Author:Michael Jackson

“I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.”

Pay Attention Flying Pay Attention Planes Insanity Imperfection Unpredictability

Author:Tibor Kalman

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