Quotes About Sanity

Goddam life, I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway. That's my goddam attitude, and I'll stick by it; this ain't a sad world unless you're sane

He did not want to talk to anyone until he had had more time to think. But at the same time he did not want to be alone. The threat of madness was always at its worst when he was alone.

When the dawn came to wake him, he met it as if it were an affront to his sanity. He found that his feet were already growing tougher, and his cut hand had healed almost completely.

Even prophets and madmen require sustenance.

Sanity's a virginity of the mind

It took ten years before they discovered half the world was crazy and some of the people in the asylum were fashioning nuclear weapons.

the upper echelon of adventure sport athletes are grappling with the fundamental properties of the universe: gravity, velocity and sanity. They're toying with them, cheating death, refusing to accept there might be limits to what they can accomplish.

The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.

Sanity is knowing the rules of the social game, internalizing them, and following them.

Much more of our sanity than we commonly realize is a consequence of our fortunate immersion in a social community.

Much of what we consider healthy mental function is the result of our ability to use the reactions of others to keep our complex selves functional. We outsource the problem of our sanity.

Sanity is knowing the rules of the social game,

People exist among other people and not as purely individual minds. An individual does not have to be that well put together if he or she can remain at least minimally acceptable in behavior to others. Simply put: We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them.

por la memoria de aquella pobre mujer que empezó perdiendo el nombre y terminó perdiendo la cordura.

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

The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me for such, and I am grateful, because woe is me! The day the would wish to give me back my sanity, that day they'll deprive me of the little liberty that I have bought at the cost of my reputation as a rational being. And who knows if they are right? I neither think nor live according to their laws; my principles, my ideals are different.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

Sandstorm shrugged. "I keep telling you, Twolegs are crazy.

I clearly had a few daddy issues myself, but you didn't see me pulling the wings off of flies. On the other hand, I did have a slight anger-management problem, and a related history of physical violence, both well documented by the public school system. And, oh yeah, that whole "hallucinating alien spacecraft from my favorite videogame" thing. So perhaps I wasn't in the best position to judge the sanity of others.

pensaba que tal vez era cierto que estaba loco y creía que no lo estaba porque los que están locos creen que no están locos,

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.