Sanity Quotes

In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

~ Munia Khan

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

~ Aleister Crowley

Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ‘what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.

~ Suzy Kassem

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

~ Nancy Sleeth

The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity,i say i'd go insane if i stop.

~ Anjum Choudhary

I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner conflict which is characteristic of modern man: the conflict between a right intuition (namely, that their vocation has fundamental importance for the destiny of humanity) and a false idea (namely, that art is superfluous luxury).

~ Paul Tournier

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

~ Tom Robbins

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

~ Barbara Marciniak

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

~ Elizabeth Kostova

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

~ Mark Lawrence

The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.And only the phoenix lives forever.

~ Fredric Brown

I am insane, does that surprise you? Ha! I think my mind is crumbling, just like crackers. If I had written five minutes earlier I would have wept, if I had written ten minutes earlier I would have told you to leave me alone, if I wait any longer I won’t write at all.

~ @ Neuroticdream Tumblr

WHO AM I?I have seven heavenly panelsLeading up to a pointed sphereI’m multidimensional like a crystalAnd my center is never clear.I’m an inventor and pioneer.A mentor to my peers.But I'm not as sound as my shell reveals,Because I’m tormented by my fears -That may appear to be groundedBut my insides are filled with tears.And the sadness is well-founded,From years and yearsOf traumatic experiencesCompoundedIn the most dementedAtmospheres.I talk but feel like nobody hears.Has reason disappeared?And, God, are you near?This is Giza’s 7th light forceAnd I'm asking you to interfere.I can no longer walk amongst the blind and deadWith open eyes and ears.I’m trying to maintain my sanityAnd to straighten up my veneerAs I roll amongst the growing calamitiesFlowing on Earth’s severely trashedFrontier.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

~ Suzy Kassem

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to prove their own sanity. Once one member of the family is hospitalized, it becomes easier for the rest of the family to distance themselves from the problem and to create a clear boundary between the sane and the insane. Recognizing a family member or friend as insane makes others around them, says Kaysen, compare themselves to that individual. Hospitalization allows for distance from this questioning of self that makes us so uncomfortable. Her view that mental illness often includes the entire family means the hospitalized family member becomes an excuse for other family members not to look at their own problems. This explains the willingness to pay the high financial costs of hospitalization.

~ Susanna Kaysen

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

~ Bernard Malamud

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

~ Stephen King

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

~ Stephen King

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.The thought behind, I strove to joinUnto the thought before—But Sequence ravelled out of SoundLike Balls—upon a Floor.

~ Emily Dickinson

We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won't allow us to see, to protect our sanity, or our soul, or maybe just to keep the shit out of our pants.

~ David Wong

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

~ Criss Jami

Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind,” she said with a hintof sadness.“You lost your mind a long time ago,” he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. “That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind,” he reaffirmed her.

~ Daniel J. Rice

But how sane can the mind really be if it doesn't even know its own depth?

~ A.r.h

The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.

~ Daniel J. Rice

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

~ Terry Goodkind

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

~ Norman Cousins

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

~ Christian Baloga

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

~ George Bernard Shaw