Sanity Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Dan Greenberg

Worse than madness. Sanity.

William Golding

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

Herman Melville

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

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

Yasmina Khadra

Christ," he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,"You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.

Kristen Callihan

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

Beth Revis

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

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

Michael R. Fletcher

It is impossible for the sane to truly understand madness.

Lance Conrad

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist's world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane.

G.K. Chesterton

She saw him like he was the only star in the whole damn sky. Like he was the only bridge between her sanity and madness.

Akshay Vasu

And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.

Stephen King

The cab driver is staring at me in his mirror. I'm talking to myself."The second sign of madness," I explain."What's the first one?""Killing lots of people and eating their genitals."He laughs and sneaks another look at me.

Michael Robotham

How do you stand it?" she said."Stand what?""All... this." Ella threw out her arm. "Does it not make you mad?"Clem glanced up. 'Much madness is divinest sense,' She said, and gave a small laugh. "There are plenty of mad women in here. I'm not sure I'm one of them though." She shrugged. "You'll get used to it.

Anna Hope

The first part of madness is believing what you hear. The Second is acting on it.

Sam Hawksmoor

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.

Machado de Assis

Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.

Donna Tartt

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness

Anne Lamott

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's undignified.

N K Jemisin

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

Douglas Adams

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

George Santayana

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Akira Kurosawa

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Rohinton Mistry

Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.

Morgan Rhodes

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

Nancy Werlin

Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.

Amanda Mosher

What's the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow. I'm not sure if I'm mad or sane. I mean, I hold my life together, I pay my bills, I raise my kids. But the world is so polarized and bizarre now that for some people, none of these these things matter if they're not wearing the right shoes or don't have the right credit score or a fancy family car. Some people think the most important things to worry about are handbags and tan lines. Meanwhile, war and crime and poverty unfold all around us, and we ignore it. In that environment, how can we even begin to talk about sanity and madness?

A.S. King

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.

Marty Rubin

I was back in disgust. I stood in the centre of the big room, naked, letting the heat strike me from the three points of heat, and I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never really understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. The texture of the carpet was abhorrent to me, a dead processed thing; my body was a thin, meagre, spiky sort of vegetable, like an unsunned plant; and when I touched the hair on my head it was dead. I felt the floor bulge up under me. The walls were losing their density. I knew I was moving down into a new dimension, further away from sanity than I had ever been. I knew I had to get to the bed fast. I could not walk, so I let myself down on my hands and knees and crawled to the bed and lay on it, covering myself.

Doris Lessing

I know, Little Man, you are quick with the diagnosis of craziness when you meet a truth you don’t like. And you feel yourself as the ‘homo normalis’. You have locked up crazy people, and the normal people manage this world. Who then is to blame for all the misery? Not you, of course, you only do your duty, and who are you to have an opinion of your own? I know, you don’t have to repeat it. It isn’t you that matters, Little Man. But when I think of your newborn children, of how you torture them in order to make them into ‘normal’ human beings after your image.

Wilhelm Reich

I am yet to see an insane who would use the mid of the high way as a home. Regardless of the degree of insanity, there is always a regard for the value and essence of life

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

With the amount of diazepam in me, I should have been content to lie back and let events unfold as they may, and my curiosity did for a moment consider it, but then a punch of panic reminded me that people far saner than I were murdered for less in more conspicuous locations.

Tanya Thompson

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

Alain de Botton

An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.

Ingrid

We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because it was put before us...And this is understandable given the workings of our system where without a job we perish, where if we don't want a job and are happy to get by we are labeled irresponsible, non-contributing leeches on society. But if we hire a fleet of bulldozers, tear up half the countryside and build some monstrous factory, casino or mall, we are called entrepreneurs, job-creators, stalwarts of the community. Maybe we should all be shut away on some planet for the insane. Then again, maybe that is where we are.

Ferenc Máté

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

Gore Vidal

You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.

Bryant McGill

The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if one must be incarcerated in the United States, a jail in central Maine would be among the more tolerable spots, but to Knight it was torture. "Bedlam" is how he referred to the place. It never got dark in jail; at eleven p.m., the lights merely became a little duller. "I suspect," he noted, "more damage has been done to my sanity in jail, in months; than years, decades, in the woods.

Michael Finkel

Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as normal, if he were going to survive.

Michael Moorcock

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

Daniel J. Rice

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It never ceased to amaze me, until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude, and slowly I came to the realization that my work was hurtling me headlong into an infinite field of omnipotence.

Bohumil Hrabal

Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Barry Hughart

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.

Dean Koontz

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.

Dean Koontz

Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

Munia Khan

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.

Kelli Jae Baeli

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane.

Chris Kyle

A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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