Quotes About Sanity

It was funny stuff, sanity. When it was taken away, you didn't know it. You didn't feel its departure. You only really knew it when it was restored, like some rare wild bird which lived and sang within you not by decree but by choice.

A veces los locos pueden imitar increíblemente bien la cordura.

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

Lack of culture equals to parallel lives, however through art, oneness, sanity and sense of belonging is restored.

I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity.

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

Crazy people don't know they're crazy. I know I'm crazy, therefore I am not crazy. Isn't that crazy?

To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.

Sometimes for our own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.

He was aware that he was not completely sane, so he kept himself in rigid check, playing both jailer and prisoner.

The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even if somebody gives you the National Gallery, your options are still very, very limited. Okay, you can sell the Old Masters, set up a trust, buy your favorite brewery. But that's strictly it. You're limited by honesty on one hand and law - that hobble of sanity - on the other.

At some point, loneliness become less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your phone wondering why you can't think of anyone to call, stop getting you hair cut, stop working out, stop thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. Because tomorrow is today, and today is yerterday, and yesterday beat the shit out of you and brought you to your knees. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better.

El mundo no es más que un manicomio sin verja

Haven't you ever thought how futile and ludicrous life is sometimes, and that if you don't take refuge in laughter you'll end up in a far worse place?

The underlying notion of a world where the sane is insane

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

And Sky isn't crazy—far from it. He has kept alive the memory of the Clan for many seasons.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

Dr. Hervey Cleckley wrote in The Mask of Sanity