Quotes About Sanity

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

We all take leave of our senses, from time to time. . . . .

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Pouvoir, au milieu de la folie, redevenir humaine

Elle n'était pas malade de sa folie, elle la vivait comme la santé.

Se dice: loco de alegría. También podría decirse: cuerdo de dolor.

toda felicidad me da casi siempre la cordura.

Reality had run and got Sanity.

The other person doesn't have to consciously join you in the change. 'Whoever is saner at the time,' says A Course in Miracles, 'is to invite the Holy Spirit into a situation.' It doesn't matter whether or not another person shares our willingness to let God enter. Everything you need in life already exists inside your head.

In a world gone mad, we can choose to be sane. In order to move ourselves, and our civilization, into the next phase of our evolutionary journey, it's time for all of us to awaken.

Marie is a person whose life experiences, though different from most, have never robbed her of her humanity. At the very depth of her psychosis, she could touch her own wish for sanity even though this touch required every bit of her will to live. From a curled-up position of catatonic silence on her hospital bed, she could still see herself: 'I looked at myself and said, 'No more. I can't go on this way anymore...if I ever want to get out of here, if I ever want to get better (xiii)

We take fortuitous resemblances among us to be actual likeness, because those around us have also fallen heir to the same customs, trade in the same coin, acknowledge, more or less, the same notions of decency and sanity. But all that really just allows us to coexist with the inviolable, untraversable, and utterly vast spaces between us.

Dad said certain people's sanity, in order to maintain a healthy equilibrium, required getting messy once in a while, what he called going Chekhovian: some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.

What in the hell was happening to me? How flimsy sanity was.

She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

His shaggy homespun overcoat was swinging open, stuffed with long envelopes and periodicals which protruded from the pockets. He looked no older; perhaps a shade less sane.

Baz? bilinçler vard?r ki, basit bir çeliÅŸki yüzünden kendilerini öldürebilirler ve bunun için de deli, saptanm?? ve kataloÄŸa girmiÅŸ bir deli olmak gerekmez; tersine, saÄŸl?kl? olmak ve akl? kendi taraf?nda bulundurmak yeterlidir.

If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.

Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.

This touch of luxury was typical of the Base, though it was sometimes hard to explain its necessity to the folk back on Earth. Every man and woman in Clavius had cost a hundred thousand dollars in training and transport and housing; it was worth a little extra to maintain their peace of mind. This was not art for art's sake, but art for the sake of sanity.

Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational. And what earlier ages would have called vice was now no more than eccentricity—or, at the worst, bad manners.