Quotes About Sanity

Rising Pressure The people around you generally appear sane and in control of their lives. But put any of them in stressful circumstances, with the pressure rising, and you will see a different reality. The cool mask of self-control comes off. They suddenly lash out in anger, reveal a paranoid streak, and become hypersensitive and often petty.

I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.

I would not mind you in my head, if you were not so clearly mad.

Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands.

Above all else, he had to show control, for what afflicted him was so uncontrollable. He had to appear completely lucid—sane within the boundaries of his memory.

And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phaedrus said, is "insane." To

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

We're informed the Church must "update" its moral teachings to stay relevant, but then discover that a good many converts enter the Church precisely because her moral theology offers sanity, humanity, and a path to human flourishing.

The world is going crazy, Karl. And hen the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay.

I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!

Sometimes you just stayed numb, because anything else was not helpful. Sanity relied on numbness, sometimes.

Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?

I found Shanghai to be the very essence of the Surrealist doctrine: If the world is mad, then the maddest man is the most sane. - Damian Adler

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.

They're getting crazier every day, the whole world's going crazy. And you got to take your mind out to keep your smile in place.

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

Solo hace falta un mal día para sumir al hombre mas cuerdo del mundo en la locura! Así de lejos esta el mundo de donde estoy yo, a solo un mal día

Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments from an oval platter to a plate, item by item. It reaffirms my faith in the sanity of superfluous civilization.

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

What enables him to think of himself as sane is only a certain fragile chemical good fortune, but he knows he would be very much in the market for a tragedy if ever life chose to test him properly.