Top 88 Insanity Quotes

You’re so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you’re sitting at home and there’s nothing going on that day.

All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I would never tie in creative with a talent’s contract. To me, that is insanity. Creative needs change, talents evolve or not, and to be locked in to a talent having the ability to not run the plays that the team dictates is not smart business.

The Internet is a global lavatory wall, a Rabelaisian mixture of truth, lies, insanity and humour.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

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

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

People have this preconceived notion of me. I’m ‘Gob’ to them: this thoughtless sociopath who lives this bizarre, ego-driven life. That would be insanity.

It’s said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In that case, the WWE ‘creative’ team must be as crazy as a rainbow trout in a car wash.

Let’s start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed it was anything other than sheer insanity to yoke together diverse national economies such as Greece, Ireland, Germany and Finland under a single exchange rate and a single interest rate?

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, right? I always figure that as you experience life and things, you usually learn and pick up on things that you can do better. That’s how I look at my career over time.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn’t be here!

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.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it’s never as bad as the insanity you’ve created in your head.

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

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.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what you know about 15-year-old boy behavior. But in 2018, we’ll have self-driving cars, and it will be so much better. My son may be the last generation of kids who learns to drive.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.

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.

Well, ‘They Live’ was a primal scream against Reaganism of the ’80s. And the ’80s never went away. They’re still with us. That’s what makes ‘They Live’ look so fresh – it’s a document of greed and insanity. It’s about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn’t demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, ‘Look, it’s sheer insanity.’

The more insanity that comes from Washington, D.C., the stronger the loyal opposition becomes.

I think there’s a lot of crazy stuff on the Internet. You read stuff that is wild speculation, and there’s an element of it that makes me not trust it because there’s this undercurrent of insanity to it sometimes.

That’s the last thing on Earth you should think about… There’s just a whole lot of things that aren’t going to work for you. Figure out what they are and avoid them like the plague. And one of them is bitcoin… It is total insanity.

Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it’s almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It’s not getting easier; if anything, it’s always right on the edge of my skin.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression ‘like an apothecary without sugar’ meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

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

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it’s a tightrope. It’s a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

He just gets progressively more and more stressed and as his anxiety builds up, so does the chaos behind his eyes. That was very fun as an actor to see that sort of bubble over and really take over Five, and him really succumb to his suppressed insanity.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn’t stand up; I couldn’t recover.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

In the late ’70s I started to search for the perfect sound – whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock’n’roll lifestyle.

The truth is that it has not been my pipe dream to have a restaurant. I know restaurateurs, and the amount of work that goes into a restaurant is nothing short of insanity. It’s a real commitment, and most restaurants don’t make it, so the odds are really against you.

‘Sherlock’ is one of the biggest things I will do, ever – we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

Seriously, I was the wrong fit at ESPN. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

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

Eurovision’ lifts you off your feet – and, by that, I mean the absolute joy, total insanity and madness of the whole thing.

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He’s very loud and fun. I don’t think there’s anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.

France’s Charles VI was subject to fits of insanity and unable to rule.

Control your life through insanity.

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

P90X and Insanity are awesome workouts for young guys who aren’t beat up. DDPYoga is for guys who are beat up. It’s the fountain of youth for beat-up guys.

Look, we’re all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I’ve chosen to make my work about that insanity.