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Quotes About Sanity

I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
~ J. G. Ballard
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
~ Aldous Huxley
Sanity is found at the centre of convulsion, where madness is scorched from the bisected soul.
~ Sarah Kane
Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane
~ Sarah Kane
I closed my own eyes for a moment and recovered, but incompletely. I can't forget how close insanity is, how easy it might be to drive off the shoulder of the road into a place where no one would ever find me.
~ Sarah Manguso
I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.
~ Sarah Waters
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness.
~ Saul Bellow
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
~ Saul Bellow
I don't want to believe because I'm crazy. I want to believe because it's true.
~ Scott Douglas
It must be nice to be righteous; from where I stand it looks like fucking lunacy.
~ Scott Lynch
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
~ Scott Westerfeld
But then there's the voice of the Holy Spirit. Oh, how we praise you for that one voice that transcends and trumps every other voice—the gossiper of the gospel, the herald of our healing, the bearer of beauty, the messenger of mercy, the singer of sanity, the cantor of Christ—God the Holy Spirit testifying with our spirits that we are your bought, belonging, and beloved children. How we praise you for the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
~ Scotty Smith
Certainly gospel sanity is to be preferred over personal vanity, all the time.
~ Scotty Smith
The 'voice of sanity' is getting hoarse.
~ Seamus Heaney
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
~ Wendell Berry
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
~ J. G. Ballard
Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.
~ Mick Jagger
I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
~ Tony Gilroy
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
~ Mark Twain
When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.
~ Mark Twain
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
~ Mark Twain
What an ass you are!" Satan said. "Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
~ Mark Twain
There was a secret somewhere, but madness was not the key to it.
~ Mark Twain