Quotes About Sanity

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

Our rocky ledge overlooking the valley. Perhaps a little less green than usual, but the blackberry bushes hang heavy with fruit. Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.

Blood and wine are interchangeable. Love and hate are unrecognizable. Sanity is no longer with me.

They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity, i say i'd go insane if i stop.

When driven by his desire to please a woman, based solely upon the emotion of sex, a man may be, and usually is, capable of great achievement, but his actions may be disorganized distorted, and totally destructive. When driven by his desire to please a woman, based upon the motive of sex alone, a man may steal, cheat, and even commit murder. But when the emotion of LOVE is mixed with the emotion of sex, that same man will guide his actions with more sanity, balance, and reason.

Locke's definition of a madman: someone "reasoning correctly from erroneous premises.

Para el hombre racional, psicológicamente sano, el deseo de obtener placer es el deseo de celebrar su control sobre la realidad. Para el neurótico, el deseo de placer es el deseo de huir de la realidad".

Who says I'm insane? Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

Why are you still with me, Fry? CyFi asks after one of his body-shaking seizures. Any sane dude woulda taken off days ago. Who says I'm sane? Oh, you're sane, Fry. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

There was a time, before I wound up here, when I would have thought all this was funny. When I was a member of the world, and not a member of "the club." The world just loves to laugh at the absurdity of insanity. I

maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

I thought you were sane, I said, but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?