Top 58 Insane Or Sane Quotes
#1. Don't worry if they say you're crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It's a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.
Anne Sexton
#2. The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
Joseph Heller
#4. Love is the reason to remain sane all life and yet it is an excuse to be insane in all the moments that make up a life.
Novoneel Chakraborty
#5. Sometimes, you have to go Insane, to Outsane, the Sane. You know what i'm Sayin?
Cartoon Network
#6. 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
#7. Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron
#8. I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.
Tracy Pollan
#9. When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.
Mark Twain
#10. What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#11. We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.
Chuck Palahniuk
#13. Don't let your schedule rule you - just do what you gotta do - or don't do it if you don't want to do it. The paradoz about schedules is that they can either help keep you sane, or drive you insane. It's your choice.
Art Hochberg
#14. Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life within the confines of normal? Had I stopped arguing with my personality and learned to straddle the line between sane and insane?
Susanna Kaysen
#16. A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?
Charles Dickens
#18. If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you.
Osho
#19. This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become saner. By its use the thousand abilities Man has sought to recover become his once more.
L. Ron Hubbard
#20. A sane accusation can be refuted. An insane accusation, one that makes no sense on any level, cannot be refuted, cannot even be addressed, because it is insolent nonsense. There is no sober way to defend oneself from the accusation of being a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.
John C. Wright
#21. 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
#22. Simply using the words sane and insane is a way for the population to draw a safe line through humanity, and then place themselves squarely on the side of the healthy." Grace's
Mindy McGinnis
#23. That's the problem with sane people. They almost always have a license to kill those they think are insane.
Cameron Jace
#24. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla
#25. People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#26. A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
William Faulkner
#28. Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something.
Yann Martel
#29. It's the process of writing and life that matters.Too many writers have written great books and gone insane or alcoholic or killed themselves. This process teaches about sanity. We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.
Natalie Goldberg
#30. If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Marguerite Young
#31. When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
Siobhan Fahey
#32. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
#33. I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.
Stephanie Ericsson
#34. The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.
Maureen Dowd
#35. Knew myself to be quite sane. I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed
Patrick Rothfuss
#36. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Criss Jami
#37. Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.
Munia Khan
#40. I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.
- Jake to Lydia
Lisa Kleypas
#41. Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
#42. You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much.
Cameron Jace
#43. Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.
Philip K. Dick
#44. There is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!
Agatha Christie
#45. People frequently claim to be going insane. But I've never heard somebody say they were going sane. Perhaps its because sanity isn't a desirable destination.
Kyra Davis
#46. Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.
Ray Bradbury
#48. I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
Oscar Wilde
#49. The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.
Ronee Blakley
#50. You're Insane-Molly
You know what they say. It's the ones who are sure they are sane that aren't. -Holt
Allison Leigh
#51. Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. It is strange how oftentimes the air speaks.
We are sane as long as we hear voices when there are none.
We are insane when we hear nothing and worse we are deaf.
Calvin Miller
#53. Insane! ... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
Henry David Thoreau
#54. The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hunter S. Thompson
#55. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
Mark Twain
#56. We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
Horace Mann
#57. No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
#58. Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.
Mary Jane Ward