Quotes About Sanity

I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.

It's just that we'd like to think that craziness and sanity are on opposite ends of an ocean, but really they're more like neighboring islands.

You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.

anymore time in that black hole and ill go insane.

Am I going crazy…as in crazier than I already am?

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.

In developed countries, we have less to fear from infectious parasites, but much more to fear from infectious memes. So, instead of opening our bodies to ambient germs, we open our minds to ambient culture, to determine if we can stay sane throughout the onslaught.

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

This book was started during the first wave of COVID pandemic, when pictures of bodies loaded into refrigerated trucks were coming out of New York. It came about because an ICU nurse emailed us and asked us to post something, anything, because reading our work on her short break between grueling shifts kept her sane.

We are all mad sometimes, but it passes. The consequences do not pass.

I have never been more sane, coldly sane, self-interestedly sane. I am a woman.

No excellent soul is exempt from mixture of madness

He was going mad and knew it, and somewhere deep inside a bit of sanity was screaming, struggling to fight off the hopeless flood of black terror. It was very horrible to go mad and know that you were going mad -- to know that in a little minute you would be here physically and yet all the real essence would be dead and drowned in the black madness. For this was the Dark -- the Dark and the Cold and the Doom.

I had zero interest in going to college. I used my GI Bill to help pay for training. I hated doing group projects or deal with people in the class who aren't paying attention. That made me go insane. I was looking for any way out. My sanity was fighting.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

No man in his senses will dance.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine Love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Sometimes it's the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.