Quotes About Sanity

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

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.

Pero existirá la libertad sin el permiso previo de la locura

We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ.

You can't drive yourself sane.

What is the use of being moral in a night-cellar, or wise in Bedlam? —WILLIAM HAZLITT,

People who are perfectly sane and happy don't make good literature, alas.

One thing is sure. Entertainment is important. Without it, the entire human race would go mad within a matter of hours.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

No eyes will raise to heaven. The pure will be thought insane and the impure will be honoured as wise. The madman will be believed brave, and the wicked esteemed as good.

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

Manie sans délire - insanity without delusion.

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

La vida sencilla y mecánica conduce a una cordura insensata ahogando nuestra inteligencia con el trabajo, en tanto que la vida pasada en el vacío de las abstracciones o en los abismos del mundo moral lleva a una loca cordura. En una palabra: matar los sentimientos para vivir hasta muy viejos o morir jóvenes aceptando el martirio de las pasiones. Esta es nuestra sentencia.

She wondered if she was going mad. It felt like a decision she could make. One small step over an invisible line and she could choose lunacy.

Yeah, I'm so crazy. Although probably that was evidence of her lack of craziness. Truly crazy people were too busy being crazy to think about it.

Now it must be taken for granted that simplicity of life and thought is the highest and sanest ideal for civilization and culture, that when a civilization loses simplicity and the sophisticated do not return to unsophistication, civilization becomes increasingly full of troubles and degenerates. Man then becomes the slave of the ideas, thoughts, ambitions and social systems that are his own product.