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Insanity

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. – Chinese Proverb

All of us are crazy in one way or another. – Yiddish Proverb

Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. – Proverb

As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity. – James Agee

We are all born mad. Some remain so. – Samuel Beckett

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. – Rita Mae Brown

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly

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

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. – Nathaniel Emmons

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. – Nora Ephron

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. – Desiderius Erasmus

Far from the madding crowd – Thomas Gray

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

I teach that all men are mad. – Horace

I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. – Waylon Jennings

Everyone is more or less mad on one point. – Rudyard Kipling