Sanity Quotes

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - AKIRA KUROSAWA

~ Michael R. Fletcher

To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.

~ Marty Rubin

To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.

~ Marty Rubin

If you haven’t lost your mind yet, that’s because you haven’t seen very much.

~ Yasmina Khadra

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

~ Beth Revis

The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.

~ Cameron Jace

In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye.

~ Robert Goddard

I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.

~ Andrew Krivak

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

~ Herman Melville

Worse than madness. Sanity.

~ William Golding

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

~ Dan Greenberg

Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why is that?- What’s that, Marshal?- The full moon. You think it makes people crazy?- I know it does.- Found a wrinkle in one of the pages and used his index finger to smooth it out.- How come?- Well, you think about it—the moon affects the tide, right?- Sure.- Has some sort of magnet effect or something on water.- I’ll buy that.- Human brain,- Trey said, - is over fifty percent water.- No kidding?- No kidding. You figure ol’ Mr. Moon can jerk the ocean around, think what it can do to the head.

~ Dennis Lehane

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

~ Terry Pratchett

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

~ Rabih Alameddine

She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

~ Anthony Kiedis

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are small.

~ E. Lockhart

Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

~ Tori Spelling

There’s no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can’t—and shouldn’t—force yourself to want something ‘normal’ and stop wanting what you truly want. It’s a sure way to make your life miserable.

~ Alessandra Hazard

Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it.

~ Aldous Huxley

...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might be constituted so that he liked it. And so long as his peculiarity doesn't damage or interfere with other people, there's no reason why he shouldn't be left alone.But if it is the man's fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happiness; if he attributes almost everything that happens either to the effects of eating it or not eating it; if he imagines that most of the people he meets are also sawdust-eaters, and above all, if he thinks that the salvation of the world depends entirely upon making laws to compel people to eat sawdust, whether they like it or not, then it is fair to say that his mind is unbalanced on the subject; and that, further, the practice itself, however innocent it may appear, is in that particular case perverse. Sanity consists in the proper equilibrium of ideas in general. That is the only sense in which it is true that genius is connected with insanity.

~ Aleister Crowley

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

~ Kate Bornstein

I wish you were here,” I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination.I hear his voice again, so real that I’m worried I’m about to fall into another hallucination. Maybe that’s what I really want. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

~ Beth Revis

No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.

~ Nomthandazo Tsembeni

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

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

~ Neil Gaiman

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

~ Edgar Allan Poe

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

~ Nikola Tesla

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

~ Hermann Hesse

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

~ Susanna Kaysen

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.

~ John Irving

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.Henry Ward Beecher

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

~ George Eliot

Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

~ Robin Mclaurin Williams

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)

~ Thomas Ligotti

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

Sanity exists only in books, while Insanity rules our lives!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was sane once. It was horrible.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

What slave work do you want me to do for you?” asked Diogenes when he had been bought.“Be a teacher to my children,” answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

~ Tomichan Matheikal