Quotes About Sanity

nos dimos cuenta casi al mismo tiempo que ciertas estructuras soñadas serían formas corrientes de locura a poco que continuaran en la vigilia.

No cualquiera se vuelve loco, esas cosas hay que merecerlas.

So you vampires living forever," I said. "You must need lot of hobbies to keep from going completely mad. My grandma swears by knitting. Do you knit, Francis?" "I do not," said Francis. "Ah," I said. "Do you crochet?" This time he didn't bother to answer.

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.

Great wits are near to madness, closely allied and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Has your discerning mind just served to drive you mad?

If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.

the specious meditations, speculations, and theories of mankind are but a kind of insanity, only there is no one to stand by and observe it.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginning what couldn't happen. What couldn't happen didn't. The enterprise is abandoned. But half our life is dreams, delirium, everything that underlies that feeds that keeps alive the illusion of sanity, semi- sanity, we allow others to see. The half of me that feeds the rest is in mourning. Mourns. Each time we must mourn, we fear this is the final mourning, this time mourning never will lift.

If this was sanity, being crazy made a lot more sense.

Sanity, remember, does not mean living in the same world as everyone else; it means living in the real world.

Any place where their thoughts are not allowed to stray is guarded by his voices steering them back to the permitted pastures. Any sadness or longing is immediately burned from the mind by the steady flame of his teachings in his voice. Sadness, depression, longings are luxuries. How can any sane mind be sad at the prospect of the kingdom of heaven, unless the sadness is merely impatience?

Technology! How can any man who means to keep his sanity go far in such an art?

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

I haven't been quite as close as Warren," Tanu said. "Probably because I'm a little saner.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

You see, the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

You should know by now that I've already had greatness. I traded it for mediocrity and some measure of sanity.

You aren't insane, then." "Heavens no," I said. I eyed her. "You don't accept that." You see people that aren't there Mr. Leeds. It's a difficult fact to get around. "And, yet, I live a good life," I said. "Tell me. Why would you consider me insane, but the man who can't hold a job, who cheats on his wife, who can't keep his temper in check, you call him sane?

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out something important. Should a strange old man of questionable sanity show up at your door – suggesting that he is your grandfather and that you should accompany him upon some quest of mystical import – you should flatly refuse him. Don't take his candy either.

There was more to all of this than he'd ever known, and because of that he had a reason to live. Perhaps more importantly, he had a reason to stay sane.