Quotes About Sanity

They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn't exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn't want to check into CrazyTown any time soon.

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity.

I'm the leader of this herd of cats," she responded. "I doubt my sanity every day.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

Ma certo che non sei malato di mente, solo un pazzo vorrebbe tornare in guerra. Invece che all'infermità, diciamo agli avvocati di appellarsi alla momentanea sanità mentale, che ne pensi? Sei troppo sano di mente per tornare in guerra, Billy Lynn ha ritrovato la lucidità. E' il resto del paese che è matto, a volerlo rispedire al fronte.

So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

The lunatic who thinks he is a crowned head may be, in a sense, happy, but his happiness is not of a kind that any sane person would envy.

Ninguém pode negar, face aos indícios disponíveis, que é fácil, uma vez garantido o poder militar, produzir uma população de lunáticos fundamentalistas. Talvez fosse igualmente fácil produzir uma população de gente razoável e sã, mas muitos governos preferem não o fazer, visto que essas pessoas seriam incapazes de sentir admiração pelos políticos que lideram tais governos.

All my knotted-up life I've longed for the sanity and simplicity of knowing who's good and who's bad. I've wanted to know this about myself as much as anyone. I needed God to clean up the mess, divide the room, sort the mail so all of us can just get on with it and be who we are. Go where we're bent.

God doesn't call us to sacrifice our sanity; He calls us to sacrifice our selfishness.

Here's a tip, Self. Do not argue with a lunatic. Arguing with a lunatic simply ensures that you'll climb into his craziness with him when what you want to do is take a big step back. He

I had got where I talked to her all the time. Like I would say, I didn't hear her talk back, so I hadn't lost my sanities.

You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world

Hypocrisy saves one's sanity. It's the shield you hide behind when the truth is too terrible to face

Es harto sabido que cuando las personas se aventuran por los confines últimos de la consciencia , arriesgan su cordura, o lo que es lo mismo, su humanidad. La Imaginación Pornográfica

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

He knew that there was a world of difference between these two notions: one was sane and the other was not, but he could not for the life of him remember which was which.

We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?

Maybe no one's really crazy. Everyone is just a little bit mad. How much depends on where you fall in the spectrum. How much depends on how lucky you are.

Wretch. The wretch retches. Calm. Sanity. Sanity is good. Panic is bad. Panic prevented deduction and deduction is the only things that's going to get me out of this.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

When it comes to ye, lass, I doubt even my sanity

I desire the King's sanity as fervently as Your Majesty does." "I care not for his sanity. I care for his happiness. His soul. Let him be mad if mad is what he needs.