Quotes About Sanity

Maybe he wasn't mad, maybe he was just crazy..

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Since when has leadership been a criterion for sanity? Or vice versa. Hitler was a gifted leader, even Nixon. Exhibit leadership qualities as an adolescent, they pack you off to law school for an anus transplant. If it takes, you go into government.

How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those Christians not defiled a civilization too advanced for their arrogant little minds to understand.

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

GUIL: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder then a man talking nonsense not to himself. ROS: Or just as mad. GUIL: Or just as mad. ROS: And he does both. GUIL: So there you are. ROS: Stark raving sane.

The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.

The kind of clarity crazy people demand from the not-crazy.

Not a sane one amongst the three of us," murmured John. Phryne laughed and kissed him. "We shall be happy lunatics," she told him. "Sanity is overrated.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

They're laughing because they're mad, too mad to be able to tell what's funny any more. The rewards for being sane may not be very many but knowing what's funny is one of them.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

believing in the magic of life, the power of hope, the cosmic sanity of chance and change, and the unmistakable power of love.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

World is all backward… It's like…we're through the looking glass. Good is bad, bad is good. Black is white, white is black. People base their lives on convenient recollections and are considered sane. People who look too hard for truth are considered crazy.

But ultimately I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer

Sanity is madness put to good uses.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.