Quotes About Sanity

I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards - how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

Am I this? Are these mine? These people? These insane people?

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.

Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?

If you ain't crazy, there's something wrong with you.

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

We go mad to become sane sometimes.

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

Well, they never know they're ill, do they? You can't diagnose yourself with the same organ that has the disease, just like you can't see your own eyeball. So, I suppose you just feel normal and the rest of the world seems to go crazy around you.

Some would have doubted their sanity at this point, but by now the part of my mind that issued doubts about my sanity had melted from overuse.

What do you think it's like, Father?" "What what's like?" "Being crazy. Mentally ill." "Well, they never know they're ill, do they? You can't diagnose yourself with the same organ that has the disease, just like you can't see your own eyeball. So, I suppose you just feel normal and the rest of the world seems to go crazy around you.

I'm a productive citizen. Well, not productive, I mean if you add up what I bring to society and what I take out, society probably breaks even. And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won't allow us to see, to protect our sanity, or our soul, or maybe just to keep the shit out of our pants.

And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

In a world that has done all it can to erase or obscure the civilizational memory of the West, remembering becomes a moral obligation, and a key to recovering our sanity.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy.

He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.Because he loved her.

If there is no kindness with your rightness, then that is madness.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.