Sanity Quotes

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets...

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability...

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability...

Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why ...

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd a...

I was back in disgust. I stood in the centre of the big room, naked, letting the heat strike me from...

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smoo...

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and ...

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and t...

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftie...

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,...

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not...

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society pr...

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact th...

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by ...

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and ...

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act c...

Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in th...

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part,...

If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, im...

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...

Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It ...

Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden term...

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to ...

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's ...

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first re...

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its...

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue f...

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane...

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you ca...

Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts bracket...

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the who...

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legit...

I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-...

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hea...

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is...

And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everythi...

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real w...

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She...

I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opi...

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dro...

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost o...

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what ...

Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses ...

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful work...

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t li...

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watche...

Worse than madness. Sanity.

I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuth...

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sa...

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's t...

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is...

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no l...

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...