Sentence examples of "Wahnsinn" in German

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Ist dies auch Wahnsinn, hat es doch Methode. If this is madness, there is method in it.
Genie und Wahnsinn liegen nahe beieinander. Genius is only one remove from insanity.
Die dünne Linie zwischen Zurechnungsfähigkeit und Wahnsinn ist feiner geworden. The thin line between sanity and madness has gotten finer.
Sie treibt mich in den Wahnsinn. She drives me mad.
Dieser Lärm treibt mich in den Wahnsinn. This noise is driving me crazy.
Dieser fürchterliche Krach treibt mich in den Wahnsinn. That terrible noise is driving me mad.
Mein Bruder trieb mich fast in den Wahnsinn. My brother almost drove me crazy.
Sein Versuch in dem eisigen Wasser zu schwimmen, war blanker Wahnsinn. It was mad of him to try to swim in the icy water.
Es war ein Wahnsinn, dass er in dem eisigen Wasser zu schwimmen versuchte. It was mad of him to try to swim in the icy water.
Ich bin mehr als einmal trunken gewesen, meine Leidenschaften waren nie weit vom Wahnsinn, und beides reut mich nicht: denn ich habe in meinem Maße begreifen lernen, wie man alle außerordentlichen Menschen, die etwas Großes, etwas Unmöglichscheinendes wirkten, von jeher für Trunkene und Wahnsinnige ausschreien musste. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.
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