Quotes About Sanity

Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Being spontaneous at times is a must. Being spontaneous all the time is a crazy person.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

If I sit in the same square room and work on something too long, I feel like you just go mad.

I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.

Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.