Quotes About Sanity

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it. - Smokeys dad, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

O génio é a insanidade tornada sã pela diluição no abstracto, como um veneno convertido em remédio mediante mistura.

I always thought of metaphysics as a prolonged form of latent madness.

Si todo hombre fuera juez, todos los hombres estarían locos

Insane asylums are full of lunatics with certainties!

they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane person have for wanting to not enjoy himself any more?

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I completely understand how temporary fame is, and I keep my sanity at all times.

I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I've been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.

The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!

One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

They turned chaos into order, even if it was at the cost of what is commonly known as sanity.

She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime. ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that came regularly - she felt perfectly normal, sane and in control. Then came the inevitable guilt . . .

It's so hard for the strongest among us to stay sane, isn't it, under the conditions we have come to think of as normal?

The more you must assert your own reality to people, the crazier you seem.

He didn't think he was edging into dementia. He suspected he was edging into sanity, the long way around. The hard way.