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Quotes About Sanity

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.
~ Shirley Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
~ Shirley Jackson
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
~ Shirley Jackson
Hill House itself, not sane, stood against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, its walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
~ Shirley Jackson
Is everyone really crazy but me?
~ Shirley Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
~ Shirley Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality;
~ Shirley Jackson
o live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill
~ Shirley Jackson
Now, she thought; I may go mad, but at least I look like a lady.
~ Shirley Jackson
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
~ Shirley Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed by some, to dream.
~ Shirley Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even marks and katydids are supposed, bu some, to dream.
~ Shirley Jackson
Nessun organismo vivente può mantenersi a lungo sano di mente in condizioni di assoluta realtà
~ Shirley Jackson
Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.
~ Carly Philips, Summer Lovin'
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
~ Norman Cousins
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is no cure for madness except the madness as the cure.
~ Santosh Kalwar, One-liners
Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
One of the many marks of a philosophical sensibility is an obsession with problems which most sane people regard as not worth bothering about.
~ John Rogers Searle
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
~ John Russell
The "Curriculum of Family" is at the heart of any good life. We've gotten away from that curriculum — it's time to return to it. The way to sanity in education is for our schools to take the lead in releasing the stranglehold of institutions on family life, to promote during schooltime confluences of parent and child that will strengthen family bonds. That was my real purpose in sending the girl and her mother down the Jersey coast to meet the police chief.
~ John Taylor Gatto