Quotes About Sanity

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

He's [Don Quixote's] a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals.

Como sólo está de veras cuerdo el que tiene consciencia de su locura

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.

The rantings of mad people do not yield greater freedom.

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

Hem dünyada kim var, hayat?nda bir kez olsun akl?n? kaybetmeyen?

Madness is the sweet lie of our minds compared to the truth of sanity.

There is no sane individual who is addicted to suffering, unless you have been brainwashed since childhood.

You can't protect my sanity by destroying yours.

Are you sane, Mother? Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. Is any immortal every truly sane?

His assurance was enough for her to hold on to the shreds of her sanity . . . because Kaleb never broke his promises. "Sahara! I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!

The scope of it might have driven another man mad; it was to Kaleb's advantage that he'd had his brush with madness as a child and survived. Whether or not he was sane was another question.

A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It is always present. waiting to be tapped, waiting to guide us, to advise us. We need only use it to prevent its atrophy. No matter what our background, profession, color, or religion, employing this universal compass, this innate sense of what we know to be true, will help us establish a lifelong foundation - a place we go to recover our sanity and to regain our balance.

The only way for me to survive with some dignity and recapture a corner of my sanity was to shut down the compartment that contained the painful memories, the insults, and the lies.

Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue.

It's the process of writing and life that matters.Too many writers have written great books and gone insane or alcoholic or killed themselves. This process teaches about sanity. We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.

The store owner had settled himself behind the counter again and was reaching for his book. "The journey will test your sanity." He spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, as though there were nothing extraordinary about his words. "And once you start walking down that road, there is no turning back. You will start craving the rush. One can become addicted to madness, you know. Develop a taste for it." He looked down at the book in his hands, frowned and turned a page.

I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they're sane. Only sane people can thing they're crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

Losing a sense of time is an easy way to lose one's grip and even one's sanity.