Quotes About Sanity

My insistence on leaving so early is in the end a symptom of fear. In a world of randomness and surprises, it's a technique I've developed to ward off anxiety and an unholy, unnameable sense of dread. I want to be on time the same way others lust for power and from a similar drive for security; it makes a little sense, though only a little, in light of the fact that I spent my childhood waiting for a father who never showed up. It's my own crazy way of trying to stay sane.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.

He confirmado que no existe diferencia entre todos los demás y yo! Basta con un mal día para que el hombre más cuerdo del mundo enloquezca. A esa distancia está el mundo de mí. A un mal día.

We aren't contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… Forever.

As he remembered Alma pointing out during their meeting of the previous year, it wasn't that he might have gone insane that was the prime cause for concern, but rather the alarming possibility that he might not have done.

Like animals that seek food for their survival, humans yearn for meaning for their sanity: what is our value, our purpose and our identity in this world?

Like animals that seek food for their survival, humans yearn for meaning for their sanity: what is our value, our purpose and our identity in this world? As long as we seek validation from the world around us, we are entrapped by aham. As soon as we realize that all meaning comes from within, that it is we who make the world meaningful, we are liberated by atma.

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

The prolonged solitary exposure to the bush that makes some people odd or crazy might in others bring the active and contemplative life into perfect harmony or grace.

Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life...your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

Then Jee started losing her mind. We are not guaranteed perfect sanity on this job. In fact, the recruiter warned me specifically about that two years ago, when I became a succubus. We get the perfect body, a fat salary, a credit card, and a place to live. If we have issues, that's what money is for—to pay for a shrink if we need one. Yeah, I can just see that first session. Hi, I work for hell, do you take Visa?

Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?