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Quotes about insanity
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. (Bierce Ambrose)
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. (Bierce Ambrose)
We are all born mad. Some remain so. (Bierce Ambrose)
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. (Bierce Ambrose)
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Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. (Bierce Ambrose)
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. (Bierce Ambrose)
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. (Bierce Ambrose)
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. (Bierce Ambrose)
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. (Bierce Ambrose)
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. (Bierce Ambrose)
I teach that all men are mad. (Bierce Ambrose)
I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. (Bierce Ambrose)
Everyone is more or less mad on one point. (Bierce Ambrose)
Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children. (Bierce Ambrose)
Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. (Bierce Ambrose)
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault. (Bierce Ambrose)
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Bierce Ambrose)
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. (Bierce Ambrose)
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. (Bierce Ambrose)
All of us are crazy in one way or another. (Bierce Ambrose)
What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance? (Bierce Ambrose)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet] (Bierce Ambrose)
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now. (Bierce Ambrose)
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