Quotes About Madness And Sanity

#1. Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

Jose Mujica

#2. She realized then that madness and sanity were two worlds separated from each other by no more than a single step.

Dean Koontz

#3. One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.

Robert Poe

#4. From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

R.D. Laing

#5. I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.

Frances Hardinge

#6. Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

George Price

#7. It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

Robert Hughes

#8. If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his greatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of his madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sanity.

Herman Melville

#9. He preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. It's a madness so discreet that it can walk the streets and be applauded in some circles, but it is madness nonetheless.

Mindy McGinnis

#11. If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity.

Bryant McGill

#12. In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

R.D. Laing

#13. Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Carla H. Krueger

#14. That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.

Jon Ronson

#15. Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Morgan Rhodes

#17. You are mad, Malloreigh!" It is an odd thing to have madness call you mad. Makes you think for a moment that you are sane, but also makes you think that it is truly sane. My mind hurts. I stopped thinking. I painted.

D.J. LeMarr

#18. I love you Contessa, Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket. Now is the time for madness.

C.D. Reiss

#19. Falling in love is some kind of madness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. She is madness,
sanity. She is hell, and
paradise.

Ellen Hopkins

#21. Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

Zoe Heller

#22. 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

#23. Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

Norman Cousins

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

Stephen King

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

Dale Wasserman

#26. Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

Virginia Woolf

#27. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Much Madness is divinest Sense
To a discerning Eye
Much Sense - the starkest Madness
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail
Assent - and you are sane
Demur - you're straightway dangerous
And handled with a Chain -

Emily Dickinson

#28. Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Nathanael Emmons

#29. Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket.

C.D. Reiss

#30. MADNESS Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity." The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means. SP-ST-62

Kahlil Gibran

#31. He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else.

Machado De Assis

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

Munia Khan

#33. The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.
And only the phoenix lives forever.

Fredric Brown

#34. I've recently begun to believe that love is synonymous with madness. It can't possibly be an act of sanity. It is restless and always in pursuit. It will fall from the sky to have what it wants.

Lauren DeStefano

#35. People who detest their sanity love to tell you they are insane, authors included...and all for a few bucks. Their charlatan madness is masturbation.

W.T. Shad

#36. How pregnant sometimes his replies are. A happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of.

William Shakespeare

#37. He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude - all the qualities that go to make an utter madman.

Machado De Assis

#38. I finally realized that I had to embrace the madness, let it transform me instead of letting it define me.

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"You, my ferocious girl, are embracing the madness. Lean into it, won't ya?

R.L. Haas

#39. 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

#40. In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

Susan Sontag

#41. My parents and their world represented a return to sanity and predictability, something I was longing for after all this madness.

Ransom Riggs

#42. How much is real and for how long..

J. Limbu

#43. Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

Sudhir Kakar

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

Herman Melville

#45. It's maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

David Lynch

#46. I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

Colin Fletcher

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

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