Sanity Quotes

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

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

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.

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.

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

In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.

What I cannot love, I overlook.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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

Too much sanity may be madness - and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the grave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store-
He frightened it to the core-
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more.

But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it's the definition of madness to believe I'm right and everyone else if wrong, to find my thoughts rational and reasonable when almost the entire world finds them damaged and flawed.

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.

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