Sanity Quotes
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In a mad world, only the mad are sane. (Quote by - Akiro Kurosawa)
We are all born mad. Some remain so. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
Every madman thinks all other men mad. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. (Quote by - Richard Bachman)
Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)
Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
See, the human mind is kind of like... a piņata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piņata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience. (Quote by - Jane Wagner)
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)
I'll be the in to your sane. (Quote by - Numan)
I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. (Quote by - William H. Mauldin)
You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. (Quote by - Matt Groening)
There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know. (Quote by - John Dryden)
If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. (Quote by - Aristotle)
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. (Quote by - Edwin Denby)
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. (Quote by - Diogenes)
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. (Quote by - G.B. Burgin)
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. (Quote by - Aesop)
Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing. (Quote by - Harry J. Anslinger)
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
To ignore the evidence, and hope that it cannot be true, is more an evidence of mental illness. (Quote by - William Blase)
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. (Quote by - Leon Blum)
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. (Quote by - David Brin)
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. (Quote by - Frank Gelett Burgess)
A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. (Quote by - Friedrich Durrenmatt)
I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so. (Quote by - Hermann Goering)
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)
All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas. (Quote by - Kingfish)
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world. (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of their absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be the possibility of their survival. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. (Quote by - Don Quixote)
Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Too much sanity may be madness. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
There is no great genius without some touch of madness. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. (Quote by - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche )
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? (Quote by - George Price)
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. (Quote by - William Shakespeare )
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. (Quote by - Kenneth Tynan)
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Quote by - Krishnamurti )
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. (Quote by - Robin Williams)
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. (Quote by - Ted Morgan)
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. (Quote by - William Dement)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. (Quote by - William Shakespeare )
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
Sanity is not statistical. (Quote by - George Orwell)
You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity (Quote by - Lance Bass)
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity (Quote by - William Allen White)
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. (Quote by - Hermann Hesse)
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. (Quote by - Janet Long)
Insanity a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. (Quote by - R. D. Lang)
Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane. (Quote by - LAURELL K. HAMILTON)
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. (Quote by - Luis Miguel)
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. (Quote by - Alvin Toffler)
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I don't really trust a sane person. (Quote by - Lyle Alzado)
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. (Quote by - Studs Terkel)
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. (Quote by - Henrik Tikkanen)
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples. (Quote by - Wallace Stegner)
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. (Quote by - John Russell)
Sanity is a cozy lie. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. (Quote by - Georges Bataille)
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Sanity is not something you find; sanity is something you either have or don't. (Quote by - Byron Pulsifer)
In a mad world only the mad are sane. (Quote by - Akira Kurosawa)
To speak of sanity is often to speak of what everybody else would do in a similar situation. (Quote by - Byron Pulsifer)
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time? (Quote by - Madame Swetchine)
Sanity: that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. (Quote by - R.D. Laing)
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. (Quote by - Oliver W. Holmes)
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
