Quotes About Sanity

What sort of life is it if you can't distinguish between madness and reality?

Who am I? One fed up with his self, at war with sanity.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

I was like that for the first few months. Then I came back to reality and realized that if I was going to remain sane, I needed to let the poor child out of my arms every now and then. It's working out and we're all much happier.

All right. Talk to me darlin'. You're not insane. A little crazy, but not insane. And this...everything you've gotten...in the last few days...do you know how many people would kill for this?" "But...

anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

She wished and wished that he had not come. She had thought all that turmoil behind her. She had achieved a hard-won measure of tranquility in the past three months. She did not want it all destroyed. She did not want another three days with him. And the inevitable parting again. She did not believe she could hold on to her sanity if she had to go through all that again. If! She was already going through it.

I had to forget you, force you from my thoughts and my heart. I could not have stayed sane else.

The man was a lunatic who somehow could tap into sanity when he looked her in the eye. What did that man make her? A human straightjacket?

The difference between mad people and sane people," Brave Orchid explained to the children, "is that sane people have variety when they talk story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over." Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

Not all that surprisingly, Holmes began to go insane, spending his final years in and out of institutions. At seventy, he was placing ads in mortuary trade journals for a rubber-coated canvas body removal bag that could, he suggested, double as a sleeping bag. Shortly before he died, Holmes is said to have requested that he not be embalmed, though whether this was a function of sanity or insanity was never made clear.

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

I keep thinking that insanity is a state where a person can't tell what's real. Well, what's real now is insane—and if I accepted it as real, I'd have to lose my mind, wouldn't

there's good crazy and bad crazy

His eyes glowed inward as he spoke, the eyes of a madman or a saint.

Notably, it was not her fabled tenure as first lady, not the conquest of Paris or the myriad other triumphs of the White House years, not her demeanor at President Kennedy's funeral and what it had meant to so many Americans, that Jackie spoke of when she replied without hesitation: "I think it is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I am proud of that.

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane.

The world's most brilliant confabulators are in asylums.

Thinking that if a person did begin considering supernatural possibilities, that person would no longer be able to think of himself as a completely sane person, and thinking about one's sanity was maybe not a good thing. It was like thinking about your heartbeat: if you had to go there, you might already be in trouble.

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below.

Sane men will often take a hint," Mr. Kenopensky said. "Crazy men rarely do.