Quotes About Sanity

Crying is not a sadness, because as the tears leave our eyes, some of the pain leaves, too, and we can go on living, and so feel more pain, yes, but some joy, as well. The line between sanity and madness may be only the ability to shed a few tears.

I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.

It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy.

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

mens sana in corpore sano—

The thought that there is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason?

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.

you said " you were insane", while all you did was being sane..!!

Todos estamos locos, de un modo u otro; y del mismo modo que tratas a tus locos con discreción, deberías tratar a los locos de Dios, o sea el resto del mundo.

God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.

Let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed.

Los locos siempre razonan bien, dentro de su propia esfera.

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

And, my good friend John, let me caution you. You deal with the madmen. All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madneb too, the rest of the world.

Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.

You can only play a certain amount of Yatzee games in a row before you become a lunatic.

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage.

My nightly blood lust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage.

The Patty Winters Shows were all repeats. Life remained a blank canvas, a cliche, a soap opera. I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was bone season for me and I needed a vacation. I needed to go to the Hamptons.

Despite their biological flaws, human beings continue to see things that our most sophisticated sensors cannot detect, and they understand strange concepts that gelcircuitry minds cannot comprehend. It is no surprise, then, that so many of them go insane. —Erasmus Dialogues

Wouldn't it be a treat, Chaz thought, to have just one goddamn day when nobody fucked with my head?