Quotes About Sanity

Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It's becoming critical. We don't need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what's already here. It's becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.

Right Response to Reality—the Three R's—is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity.

There was a silence for a while. Finally, Sloosh opened his eyes. He said, I've traced my line of thought. It's rational and analytic. No. I'm not crazy.

A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses . . . what do they think?

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?

The sane man does not know that everything is possible. In other words, the mentally ill person at one time or another knew too much. And, as a result, so to speak, his head shut down.

There wasn't a sane person left in Northern California. It was time to move somewhere else.

There wasn't a sane person left in Northern California. It was time to move somewhere else.

Frauds—the deceptions of madness—abound and mask themselves as their mirror opposite: pose as sanity. The masks, however, wear thin and the madness reveals itself. It is an ugly thing.

O que ele não sabia na época era que às vezes uma reação adequada à realidade é enlouquecer.

For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It took This for me to learn that I am a citadel of sanity.

Before that night, I'd had no idea my father was so well suited for wreaking havoc or equipped to make that lightning-quick transformation from sanity to lunacy that is indispensable in enacting the unbridled urge to destroy.

Was she impersonating someone, acting from a script prepared beforehand? Or was I dealing with a person who could not be dealt with because she was mad?

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

She'd heard so many tales about the way love could save one's sanity; no one had ever told her hate could do the same.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

To live in the city of crowds and traffic and constant noise, to be always striving, to be in the ceaseless competition for money and status and power, perhaps distracted the mind until it could no longer see—and forgot—the all that is. Or maybe, because of the pace and pressure of that life, sanity depended on blinding oneself to the manifold miracles, astonishments, wonders, and enigmas that comprised the true world.