Quotes About Sanity

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

I am still more or less sane because of my evening reading.

The scariest thing about crazy people is that they can look so normal - Rob Sutter

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.

Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.

I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

And we lived in a world that was evil. A world that was like a great black ship pulling away from the shore of sanity and civilization, roaring its black horn in the night, taking two billion people with it, whether they wanted to go or not, to death, to fall over the edge of the earth and the sea into radioactive flame and madness.

Whoever he was or whatever he was and no matter how different and crazy he seemed, he was not crazy.

Did you ever read that story about the man who traveled to the future and found everyone there insane? Everyone. But since they were all insane they didn't know they were all insane. They all acted alike and so they thought themselves normal. And since our hero was the only sane one among them, he was abnormal; therefore, he was the insane one. To them, at least. Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.

There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.

One of the petitioners, an infamous do-gooder of uncertain sanity named Warner Mifflin, had actually acknowledged that his antislavery vision came to him after he was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm.

His sanity is the antidote to the poison that courses through the sin-cankered plot of the play. Without his heroic struggle to make sense of the madness surrounding him, nothing would make sense at all. Everything would be madness

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Ich hatte nicht den Verstand verloren! Mein Hirn wurde nicht in zwei Hälften gerissen. Ich würde mein weiteres Leben nicht in einer Zelle mit sehr weichen Wänden verbringen müssen. Das war soweit erfreulich.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.