Quotes About Sanity

The 'insane' always believe in first impressions.

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the threats and fears of our daily life.

Chögyam Trungpa put it, "Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

The main question is, are we living in a way that adds further aggression and self-centeredness to the mix, or are we adding some much-needed sanity?

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

Maybe the mad don't need to sleep. Maybe their insanity is all they require to sustain them.

anybody who started hunting for evidence of insanity in himself would certainly find plenty ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch 20

You're old enough to know that everybody except very crazy people and very stupid people suspect themselves now and then – or whenever they happen to think about it – of not being exactly sane. ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch XIX

Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane As me. - All the Madmen

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?

A vida é a mesma coisa que se ficar num hospício de loucos, pensei. Cada um vai circulando, imerso e afogado em suas próprias desilusões, sem que ninguém veja. A pessoa vai abrindo caminhos pelas celas, passando por entre os companheiros atormentados, rumo àquele que parece o único mentalmente são. Era exatamente o que eu estava fazendo agora.

Our times are still not safe and sane enough for faces to show ordinary sorrow.

La normalidad es un equilibrista sobre el abismo de la anormalidad. ¡Cuántas ocultas demencias contiene el orden cotidiano!

Salió de la cantina casi de buen humor, y de hecho divertido con la idea de que estaba apostando la cordura por la evidencia flaca de un escalofrío compartido. —¿Es usted un romántico? —pregunta la heroína de la película. —Sí —responde su héroe—. ¿Le molesta? —No —concluye, sabihonda, la mujer—. Todos tenemos algún defecto.

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something.