Quotes About Sanity

Marcus Aurelius. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

How many clients had Myrna sat across from as they complained about having been "done wrong"? Whose grip on grievances was so tight it strangled reason. They'd give up sanity before giving up these injustices.

There's a fine line between noble perseverance and insanity,

Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.

The people we define as crazy just might be more sane than you and me.

Sanity kills, so I live the crazy life.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

You can't talk about yourself in the third party - that makes you a lunatic!

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

I'm not a madman.

It just lies behind the slightly more normal things I do do. This sense that most people are crazy, if you look deep enough. Adults particularly, and children have to deal with them.

Hervey Cleckley, M.D., from The Mask of Sanity

Talent is everything; sanity is nothing.

There seems to be a conspiracy, one calculated to destroy our sanity by overloading our memory. Many codes, such as postal codes and telephone numbers, exist primarily to make life easier for machines and their designers without any consideration of the burden placed upon people. Fortunately

It would take, he calculated, more than an hour. First a cream-filled swan and a coffee at Tonolo, then the walk to Campo San Barnaba and the store that sold the good cheese and the bread from Puglia. He had fled his office in search of peace and quiet, seeking some evidence that sanity still existed in a world of violence and crime, and his wife suggested they spend an hour eating pastry and buying a loaf of bread. He leaped at the chance.

You must be rendered sane according to the culture of the people.

To be able to forget means sanity.

Hurrying on, Barbee nodded to the workman as casually as he could. His skin felt goose-pimpled under the thin red robe, and he couldn't help shivering to a colder chill than he felt in the frosty air. For the quiet city, it seemed to him, was only a veil of painted illusion. Its air of sleepy peace concealed brooding horror, too frightful for sane minds to dwell upon. Even the cheery bricklayer with the lunch pail might - just might - be the monstrous Child of Night.

And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

Nebun nu este acela care se rupe de real, ci acela pe care realul îl invadeaz? È™i îl debordeaz?.