Quotes About Sanity

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shephard's Bush -- having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance.

Sorry, it was but a momentary lapse of sanity.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

I never Google myself because that way madness lies.

I'm very grateful, first of all, for my friends and my family because they keep me grounded, and they make sure I'm taking care of myself and that I'm keeping my sanity about me.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

I had been crazy since I was born, and now I was sane and it felt wonderful. The wind and the waves were sitting in that cave with me twisting thread, and nature was not something outside anymore.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them

Un'intelligenza perfettamente sana è sempre un po' spaesata in questo pazzo mondo.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.