Quotes About Sanity

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

So long as man is protected by madness, he functions, and flourishes.

When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.

Life seems good only to the madman

reality" falls within the province of lunacy.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Much Madness is divinest Sense—To a discerning Eye—Much Sense—the starkest Madness—'Tis the MajorityIn this, as All, prevail—Assent—and you are sane—Demur—you're straightway dangerous—And handled with a Chain.

Crazy people have color and imagination and the thing is, some of us aren't actually crazy. We're just right. -Sarah Lange

Mark Twain had written somewhere: We are all mad at night.

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

I used to believe that you have to say yes to every opportunity that comes your way in order to succeed in life. Now I realize that the rarely-talked-about secret to success (and sanity) is recognizing when it makes more sense to say no.

I don't generally hang out with crazy people.

You are a slow learner, Winston. How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.