Quotes About Sanity

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

But that never was true. Glenn was as sane as I am, and, my dear, that's pretty sane, I'll have you remember. But he must have suffered some terrible blight to his spirit--some blunting of his soul.

para la gente vulgar la genialidad se parece a la locura.

But, after these days of nightmare, there was something reassuring in discovering that there were still people in the world sane enough, and with quiet enough minds, to be put out by the holes in a pair of worsted stockings.

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

Strangulation. It was a fearful way to go, wrestling, kicking your way towards oblivion, panic, the fretful sucking for air, and the killer behind you most likely, so that you faced the fear of something totally anonymous, a death without knowledge of who or why. Rebus had been taught methods of killing in the SAS. He knew what it felt like to have the garotte tighten on your neck, trusting to the opponent's prevailing sanity. A fearful way to go.

What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?

Tis wrong," she cried in a moment of sanity. "My soul will be damned to hell for eternity." "If this be hell, my lady, give me an eternity to spend there with you," his deep, husky voice resounded against her ear.

Surely we are all mad people, and they Whom we think are, are not;

He began to realise that it was not Hitler but Hitlerism which must be rooted out before Germany could become whole and sane and able to take her rightful place amongst the great nations of the world. "It seems hopeless," said Franz at last in a sombre tone.

His fellow travellers took him for an Englishman and did not mince their words, and their words were all the more weighty and significant because they were perfectly calm. They did not rant and rave against Germany, they did not hate her, they merely judged her and condemned her as they would have judged and condemned any thief or any murderer of innocent men. They discussed the whole affair sanely and dispassionately in a manner that made his blood run cold.

Three days doesn't sound like a very long time, and under normal, everyday circumstances, it's not - but under POW camp conditions, it doesn't take long to wear down a man's sanity.

If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two in my past, it seemed that a book was the only thing that stood between me and near insanity.

My God, I can't stand this! I can't let you go out every day, fearing every minute that something might happen to you, knowing that every ounce of sanity I've got left is hinged on your well-being. I can't feel this way…it's too strong…oh, hell. I'll turn into a raving lunatic. I'll never be of use to anyone again. If I could just reduce it somehow…love you only half this much…I might be able to live with it.

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

You need to know where to go, Sanya said. Yes. And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance. Yes, I said. The big man frowned for a moment. Then he said, There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

I poke at my skull with a finger. It didn't feel soft or anything. I didn't feel insane. But if you'd really lost it, would you have enough left to know? Crazy people never thought they were crazy. I've always talked to things, I said. And to myself. Good point, myself agreed with me. Unless that means you've been nuts all along. I don't need wiseass remarks, I told myself severely. There's work to do. So shut up.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

If you weren't getting pretty close to crazy right now, would you be talking to yourself right now?

I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?