Quotes About Sanity

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The sanest thing in this world is love.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

Krankzinnigheid is iets wat alleen door zijn zeldzaamheid wordt bepaald. Als van honderd mensen er vijf en negentig krankzinnig zijn, dan zijn niet zij krankzinnig, maar de vijf, die het niet zijn

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

I would hope very much that the converse of that myth isn't true - that one does not have to be nuts to be creative.

Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.

When you inhabit any of these three roles, youre reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. Youre always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.

the collective madness which is called normality... the madness that masquerades as sanity... For what is the perception of madness, but the perceiver's perception of sanity? What is that perception but what collective society has decreed sanity to be?

Thomas believes he has done a fine job of remaining sane the past weeks, but it has been a taxing day, and surely no one would blame him if he simply went mad. Lamentably, going mad will have to wait.

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.

You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.