Quotes About Sanity

Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.

safety and kept them sane in the midst of utter chaos.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.

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.

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

Remember kid, you're only as sane as the people you choose to love. Manny, Miracle at Margari Park

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

She shook her head, wondering if the jangle of voices was already driving her mad.

Caitlin Conn was a lousy liar. In her father's house, refusing to lie had been rebellion, and under those circumstances the small rebellions kept one sane. You asserted any control you could; you defended any part of your identity you could own. Lying would have been safer, it would have diverted Alasdair's attention.

What kind of a promise ? One that only a fool asks of a madman