Quotes About Sanity

My definition of LUNATIC ASYLUM: A place where lunatics are created.

If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane.

It's not the books by Stephen King that I read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Qualquer amor já é um pouquinho de saúde, um descanso na loucura.

Any love is already a little bit of health, a rest in the madness.

This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I had ever had about death, about illness, about probability and luck, about good fortune and bad, about marriage and children and memory, about grief, about the ways in which people do and do not deal with the fact that life ends, about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself

Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane.

La razón es el perfecto equilibrio de todas las facultades; fuera de ella, todo es insania, insania y nada más que insania.

Nada tenho que ver com a ciência; mas, se tantos homens em quem supomos juízo são reclusos por dementes, quem nos afirma que o alienado não é o alienista?

A razão é o perfeito equilíbrio de todas as faculdades; fora daí insânia, insânia e só insânia.

Before Ryan's murder, she'd trusted the criminal justice system wholeheartedly. But that was before she'd almost lost everything she cherished. She couldn't face another attack on her integrity and professionalism without imperiling the fragile sanity she clung to like a life preserver

The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation.

My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

What do those who struggle against power do when they seize power? What does the revolutionary do when the revolution triumphs? Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others? And is it sane or insane to believe, as so many around us apparently do, in nothing?

It is possible that these great geniuses are only madmen, and that one must be mad oneself to have boundless faith in them and a boundless admiration for them. If this is true, I should prefer my insanity to the sanity of the others.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

where to all species except the talkative have been allotted the niche and diet that become them. This, whatever micro- biology may think, is the world we really live in and that saves our sanity, who know all too well how the most erudite mind behaves in the dark without a surround it is called on to interpret, how, discarding rhythm, punctuation, metaphor, it sinks into a driveling monologue, too literal to see a joke or distinguish a penis from a pencil.

My name on the title-page seems a pseudonym for someone else, someone talented but near the border of sanity...