"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

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"I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results."

Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician

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"We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity."

Peter Criss, American Musician

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"The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments."

Lois Greiman, American Author

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"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."

Barry Mann, American Musician

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"We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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"Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Insanity, Madness, Insult, Body, Horror

"You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"You're insane."It'll work."Which does not alter the fact that you are insane."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

Insanity, Humor, Observation, Reality

"Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: 'Soon all the humans will be dead,' she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. 'And then Opal will be loved.'And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead."

Eoin Colfer, Irish Author

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"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife."

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"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."

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"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

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"The teeth!-the teeth!-they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."

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"All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream."

Philosophy

"How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?-from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."

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"I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results."

"We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity."

"The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments."

"I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner."

"We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind."

"Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits."

"You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile."

"You're insane."It'll work."Which does not alter the fact that you are insane."

"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."

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"On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome."

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"In efforts to soar above our nature we invariably fall below it."

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"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife."

"And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?"

"The teeth!-the teeth!-they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment of their first terrible development."

"All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream."

"How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?-from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."