Quotes About Sanity

Is a broken king really better than a mad one?

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

I've lost millions. The money's not the problem it's the sanity. You go insane. As soon as the bets on you are like 'what did I do that for?' You search and search for the bet and then you think 'why did I do it?' Then the self-worth comes in and you hate it.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no trustworthy standard by which we can separate the 'real' from the 'unreal' aspects of phenomena. Such standards as exist are conventional: and correspond to convenience, not to truth. It is no argument to say that most men see the world in much the same way, and that this "way" is the true standard of reality: though for practical purposes we have agreed that sanity consists in sharing the hallucinations of our neighbors.

compos mentis.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Realmente ella era una persona muy equilibrada. (Aunque a veces, bajo las más grandes apariencias de equilibrio encontráramos las locuras más sorprendentes o los misterios más inescrutables.)

Non, il n'avait jamais pensé qu'il pût être un monstre et ne se croyait pas différent des autres hommes qui, selon lui, étaient tous des fous dès qu'ils se trouvaient seuls avec eux-mêmes et hors du contrôle d'autrui.

I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.

The only sane option was to retreat back out into the corridor. Fortunately sanity had never really slowed Neverfell down.

It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence.

It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence.

Solange das, was jemand glaubt, ihn nicht ins Irrenhaus oder ins Gefängnis bringt, gibt es keinen Grund, warum es weniger akzeptabel sein sollte als das, was wir, äh, normalen Leute als Realität betrachten.

Las personas que están en sus cabales no se enorgullecen de sus talentos

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

It's strange, isn't it?' the woman said in a pensive voice. 'Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it... But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.