Quotes About Sanity

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.

She was one hundred percent homo sapiens and two hundred percent bugfuck crazy.

The larger question for the Northwest, where the cities are barely a hundred years old but contain three-fourths of the population, is whether the wild land can provide work for those who need it as their source of income without being ruined for those who need it as their source of sanity.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE,

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE, German critic and poet

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.

There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries.

Is she crazy?" "No," he said simply. "But sometimes her sanity is terrifying.

No wonder that, to a writer—to readers, to so many beset people now—solitude suggests not loneliness, but serenity, that kissing cousin of sanity.

More than any other single thing, in any case, the practical irrelevance of actual obedience to Christ accounts for the weakened effect of Christianity in the world today, with its increasing tendency to emphasize political and social action as the primary way to serve God. It also accounts for the practical irrelevance of Christian faith to individual character development and overall personal sanity and well-being.

Indeed, for anyone who has a genuine knowledge of God, praise is the only appropriate attitude in which to live. It is the only sane attitude.

I read this, as you do, with hope for my sanity and hope for salvation, not of my soul, but salvation of self in the renewed certainty or reunion--real reunion, physical reunion--with the one whom I remember and love above all others. And this is the best reason to read.

I speculated, not for the first time, that the sanity of the nation would be much improved if children and adults were required by law to eat in separate public establishments.

"It's an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends."

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we must recognize the limits of politics.

Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.