Quotes About Sanity

Women are afraid of the intensity of feeling that may surface as their eyes are opened to the wider reality of a woman's life. A woman's intensity makes everyone uncomfortable, including herself. We were taught to be nice, not angry, even when our own lives and sanity are at stake.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

Crazy people don't need an explanayshun for nothing.

I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed both thoughts from my mind.".

Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head. "Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.

Dejé de prestarle atención. Wil y Sim tenían razón: el tipo estaba mal de la cabeza. ¿Qué pasaría si yo salía corriendo de la habitación, desatrancaba la puerta y la cerraba? ¿Me lo agradecerían los otros maestros?

I thought I might be a little crazy." "You still might be," she said. "I'm not a good touchstone to use for judging your sanity." "Do you feel crazy?" She shook her head, a half smile curling the corner of her mouth. "No. How about you?" "Not particularly." "That's either good or bad, depending," she said. "How do you propose we go about solving the mystery of the ages?

my safety and sanity were at stake. I believed the world was more interesting with Kvothe in it

knew myself to be quite sane. I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed

Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.

That there's something about the craziness that he had to go through that's kept me relatively sane.

Hope for sexual sanity is found only in one place: at the foot of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?' 'Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.' (...) 'And?' 'Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.

The word respect comes from the Latin word respectus, which means the action of looking back. McWilliams (1999) emphasizes that the formulations encourage us to think about our patients as complex wholes, not just their weaknesses, but their strengths, not just their pathology but their health, not just their misperceptions but their surprising, unaccountable sanity under the worst of conditions.

Sometimes Anatole wonders just where the elusive point is, where you stop being sane.

He wondered if he'd completely lost his mind, but then figured that people who'd gone insane never wondered if they'd gone insane.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.

Ironic," Ricardo said. "That you must become a monster to keep from going mad.

Fortunately she spread nothing except food on the beckoning cloth, and his sanity partially returned.

If you slow or stop the flow to try to maintain your old comfort level, you only stall your progress, reinforce fear, and create needless pressure and agitation. If you trust that a higher sanity is directing the flow and that it's just right for you and surrender to having the experiences you need, the frequency of your body, emotions, and mind will rise and you will experience the benefits of each phase.

But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.

At the same time my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor returned to me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored to my throne, and surpassing greatness was added to me.