Quotes About Sanity

Did life's penurious length Italicize its sweetness, The men that daily live Would stand so deep in joy That it would clog the cogs Of that revolving reason Whose esoteric belt Protects our sanity.

435 Es la mucha Locura la mayor Sensatez- Para un Ojo sagaz- Mucha Sensatez-es Locura absoluta- Es la Mayoría En esto, como en Todo, prevalece- Asiente-y serás cuerdo- Disiente-y de inmediato serás el peligroso- Y te pondrán Cadenas-

The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.

Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

Why don't you write that sentence down and read it? Then perhaps you would realize how insane you are. -Linus Wynter

Who are these people whose admiration you seek? Aren't they the ones you are used to describing as mad? Well, then, is that what you want – to be admired by lunatics?

I wonder sometimes whether a person has to become insane these days in order to feel certain things. Lessing once said, "Who doesn't become insane over certain things, has no sanity to lose

all of us are more or less insane, or more or less asleep

All things being equal, he preferred to do business with people who were sane.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Consider how few persons you shall meet who are as sweet & sane as nature is. One quaffs health, courage, genius, and sanctity from that cup, and is never satiated with it.

Nothing to be sorry about," Therese said crisply. "I'm sure she looked sane at the bar.

It's true we're all a little insane

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

I am crazy, I know, Thérèse. But who is not?

Ninguém é sábio por inteiro, mas quem se resignaria a ser totalmente louco?

When I do something perfect, I enjoy a split second of sanity and calm.

We have to assume that the people whose dwelling-places, artefacts, lives even, we are dealing with were rational, integrated, sane and sensible human beings. Then we look around at our own contemporaries and wonder how this belief can possibly be sustained.

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.

I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.