Famous quotes containing the word insane:
“Now like an insane man, you seek water in the middle of a stream.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 5016 B.C.)
“we do not explain my husbands insane abuse
and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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