Quotes About Sanity

If anyone was sane here, he swore it was by accident.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

It may be true that every enlightened sage is insane, but it does not necessarily follow that every insane person is an enlightened sage!

Indeed if one had just seen him at the end of the evening with the dusk and the mist of the fenlands close behind him he might have believed that in the dusk and the mist was an army that followed this gay worn confident man. Had the army been there Niv was sane. Had the world accepted that an army was there, still he was sane. But the lonely fancy that had not fact to feed on, nor the fancy of any other for fellowship, was for its loneliness mad.

akl?m? kaç?rd???ma dair bir dedikodu yay?yorlar. doÄŸru deÄŸil bu, akl?m? kaç?rmad?m, akl?mdan kurtuldum…

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

It has been said that time heals all wounds, I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but is never gone.

for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best

man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

had sought, and with that comprehension came a new clarity, a return to sanity, and even a kind of wisdom.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

he spoke with so much simplicity that it was evident he spoke the truth, or that he was mad.

Well, so much the better for him,' said the inspector. 'When he is altogether mad, he will suffer less.' As you can see, this inspector was a man of the utmost humanity and altogether worthy of the philanthropic office with which he had been entrusted.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

She doesn't mistake that for reality, and neither does she mistake anything else for reality, and this is how she knows that she is sane. Meneseteung

T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

Já é duro o bastante tentar levar a vida sem ser maluco.

And the knowledge of how to stay sane in this rapidly worsening situation can seem hard to come by - as if it's hiding away from our crude, self-obsessed, materialistic culture. Consequently many people live and die without ever knowing such wisdom exists, (though perhaps it was never withheld from those who sincerely sought it).

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it.

Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled of piss-soaked diapers and engine parts, and the sink was always full. In retrospect Vic was only surprised she didn't go crazy sooner. She was surprised that more young mothers didn't lose it. When your tits had become canteens and the soundtrack to your life was hysterical tears and mad laughter, how could anyone expect you to remain sane?

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.