Quotes About Sanity

It's like the craziest patient at the insane asylum running the place because he's the most "qualified."

Look both ways before entering the insanity.

All my life I've been trying to fit insane pieces into the puzzle of sanity. Or maybe the other way around.

Why, no one is sane, straight along, year in & year out, & we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, & express themselves in various forms — fortunately harmless forms as a rule — but in whatever form they occur an immense upheaval of feeling can at any time topple us distinctly over the sanity-line for a little while...

Not all the nuts are in the can.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad

When first resurrected, he'd worried constantly over which aspects of his past he should imitate for the sake of sanity, and which he should discard as a matter of honesty.

We are all insane to one degree or another, and the most functional of us merely hides it the best.

cuerdos," he says. They're sane.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

nearly mad before you cleaned

Some people never go crazy. BEWARE You may end up working with them.

No matter what your thoughts are they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!

The truth is, "Do what you can with what you have, Because some people never go crazy.

I was never insane. I just needed to live my life in the best way possible.

It's not true that I escaped from reality. There is always some reason in my madness.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Just where is, he thought, the line that separates insanity?

A man who swears before the world to love a woman till death part him and her is sane neither in the opinion of the philosopher who understands what mutability is nor in the opinion of the man of the world who understands that it is safer to be a witness than an actor in such affairs. A man who swears to do something which it is not in his power to do is not accounted a sane man.

The Old Man was a lunatic, but he was a good, kind lunatic, and he couldn't no more be a sane man in his transactions with his fellow white man than you and I can bark like a dog, for he didn't speak their language. He was a Bible man. A God man. Crazy as a bedbug. Pure to the truth, which will drive any man off his rocker. But at least he knowed he was crazy. At least he knowed who he was. That's more than I could say for myself.

When are you going to trust me Max? asked Fang. When I go completely bonkers, I laughed.

It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us, I said. We seem so normal afterward.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.