Quotes About Sanity

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

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Sanity," she says to the ground, "is a mutual agreement between folks trying to control their world.

I must visit a psychiatrist to check if there's any sanity left in me.

I only box. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. I can't just go to the gym and run. I'd rather die. I played volleyball and rode horses my entire life, so just, like, moving to a city and having to go the gym was just, like, so weird for me.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

People who are normal (i.e., sane, sensible) don't try to open lines of communication with total strangers by writing them a series of disjointed, weird, cryptic messages.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy. "I

I automatically started thinking about what I'd do if I had to prove I was sane. I'd like to think that just being my normal, essentially sane self would be enough, but I'd probably behave in such an overly polite and helpful and competent manner I'd come across like a mad butler with panic in his eyes.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Tony said just being here can be enough to turn someone crazy.

Is he nuts? I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'. So that would be a yes.

Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?

The alternative—sanity—became insane. Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

The acts of madmen exceed the previsions of the sane.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man.

Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring

Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and reminded myself for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that the only sane response was to continue carrying the tune.

I didn't want to do media or appearances. You've got to do this and that, fly here to film something. I didn't want to cut into my time for that. You can't pay for your peace of mind and your sanity.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

Kalau kemanusiaan tersinggung, semua orang berperasaan dan berpikiran waras ikut tersinggung, kecuali orang gila dan orang yang berjiwa kriminil, biar pun dia sarjana.

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.