Quotes About Sanity

Silence, like madness, is only comparative.

Mas o que seria loucura, recusar a realidade ou pactuar com ela?

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

When we give relational access to us, it should never lead to "less safety, less sanity, or less strengthening for the individuals in the relationship.

I'm completely sane except when I'm the opposite of that.

My friend Meyer, the economist, says that cretins are the only humans who can be absolutely certain of their own sanity. All the rest of us go rocketing along rickety rails over spavined bridges and along the edge of bottomless gorges. The man who believes himself free of any taint of madness is a damned liar.

If insanity is contagious, and it is, so is sanity. Sanity is more contagious than insanity. It's just that there aren't enough carriers. Become a source of infectious sanity.

We were equally tired, in mid-century, of cold sanity and hot blasphemy; of the over-cerebral and of the over-faecal; the way out lay somewhere else. Words had lost their power, either for good or for evil; still hung, like a mist, over the reality of action, distorting, misleading, castrating; but at least since Hitler and Hiroshima they were seen to be a mist, a flimsy superstructure.

The bearing of all this on the question of premeditation [and premeditation will imply sanity] is very obvious. You must not allow any considerations of age or temptation to weigh with you in the finding of your verdict. Before you can come to a verdict of guilty but insane you must be well and thoroughly convinced that the condition of his mind was such as would have qualified him at the moment for a lunatic asylum.

How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what madness felt like?

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

Parce que, à sa façon de causer, on voyait bien que le gars était allé très longtemps à l'école. C'était probablement ce qui l'avait rendu dingue.

As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

Crazy isn't being broken...

Sometimes, the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Some people will tell me I'm crazy, and I'll tell them thats the only thing that keeps me sane.

My professional and personal experiences have not turned me off to relationships.., no my experiences have taught me that crazy has no bounds and sanity should be appreciated and never taken for granted.

I would know it even in madness.

Like a good many men, artists or not, Stone liked to go out with ravishing women who were some kind of crazy, but preferred to go home to somebody sane. With the possible exception of Pablo Picasso, this pattern of behavior is not sustainable for anyone in the long term.

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

No less than GOD says she needs to put aside the sanity-producing magazine and pillow and start fucking her husband! Get over yourself and start fucking!

Me di cuenta de que sin palabras los humanos nos convertimos en bestias y perdemos la cordura