Quotes About Sanity

Halfway across town, Father Tibor Kasparian lay on the long hard cement cot that was what this jail cell had for a bed and wished he had a book. It could be any book. He didn't really think he could read right now, but it always made him feel better, and calmer, and more sane, to hold a book. He had never been able to understand people who did not read. He had never been able to understand how they held on to themselves.

There were moments, I could now see, when it was understandable to completely go off your rocker. The easiest and most reasonable and maybe proper thing to do in the world, to lose hold of yourself.

grip and focus beyond the powers of many of those who have spent a lifetime without their sanity being examined or questioned.

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

Mieleltään sairaat voivat hyvinkin muodostaa enemmistön, mutta ei se tee heistä tervejärkisiä.

Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.

Breathe in the smell of exhaust and body odor, breathe out your health and sanity.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled , that's all.

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad.

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.

The fact that everyone else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.

Studying the complexities of the mind may make you a good psychologist, but doing so won't take you beyond the mind, just as the study of madness isn't enough to create sanity.

Criminally insane, with a few brief lucid intervals.

The Masks Of Love I come in from a walk With you And they ask me If it is raining. I didn't notice But I'll have to give them The right answer Or they'll think I'm crazy.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth.

When things are at their worst, Scarlett, the only thing to do is find something to laugh about. It keeps you sane… and it stops your teeth chattering from fear.