Quotes About Sane And Insane

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

Charles Dickens

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I should have thought of this years ago.
But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

Jenny Lawson

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Joseph Heller

#12. No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Alan W. Watts

#13. We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.

Haruki Murakami

#14. 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

#15. Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

Hunter S. Thompson

#16. I Love Her and Hate Her I Wish Her Happiness I Wish Her Unhappiness I Hope She Is Happy I Hope She Is Never Happy I Curse Her I Bless Her She Drives Me Insane She Keeps Me Sane She is My Angel Dark She is My Demon Bright

Timothy Stanley

#17. The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Steven Wright

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

Horace Mann

#23. The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Hunter S. Thompson

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

Ronee Blakley

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Jalaluddin Rumi

#33. 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

#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