Quotes About Sanity And Insanity

#1. My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#2. Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.

Luis Marques

#3. 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Michael Sheen

#4. 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

#5. There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Megan Gallagher

#6. Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

Herman Melville

#7. The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

Philip K. Dick

#8. That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.

Poppy Adams

#9. Sanity and sense becomes a prison.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#10. 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

#11. To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. If most people owned up to their own insanity maybe the rest of the world would be diagnosed with sanity and we would lock them up for not fitting into our society.

Thatcher C. Nalley

#13. Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.

Amanda Mosher

#14. Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Margaret Atwood

#16. The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.

Salvador Dali

#17. 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

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

Charles Dickens

#19. My feeling is that sanity is actually a pretence, a way we learn to behave. We keep this pretence up because we don't want to be rejected by other people - and being classified insane is to be shut out of the group in a very complete way.

Keith Johnstone

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. 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

#22. Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.

Stefan Molyneux

#23. I am yet to see an insane who would use the mid of the high way as a home. Regardless of the degree of insanity, there is always a regard for the value and essence of life

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. Sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and foremost, of one's own convictions.

Michael Cunningham

#25. Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, 'Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

Aleister Crowley

#28. Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.

Agatha Christie

#29. 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

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

Stephen King

#31. We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Jim Butcher

#32. Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Will.i.am

#33. Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Nathanael Emmons

#34. Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.

Criss Jami

#35. Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

Ken Kesey

#36. Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

Robert Aickman

#37. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

George Eliot

#38. Blood and wine are interchangeable.
Love and hate are unrecognizable.
Sanity is no longer with me.

A.P. Sweet

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

Munia Khan

#40. 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

#41. What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crisis ... and insanity is the only viable alternative.

Robert Anton Wilson

#42. All stories are love stories, and there are numerous kinds of love, from the love of a mother holding her child for the first time to the love of blood that drives a psychopath, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance. Let the saner people do that.

Alcatraz Dey

#43. Love isn't crazy. Love isn't a degree of insanity. Love is sanity at its purest. It forces your soul to make a rational choice - a choice to make another person's happiness your priority, to allow them access to your heart and soul.

Lila Felix

#44. Insanity," said Hatta, still mesmerized by his royal purple hair. "That always seemed the strangest word because it actually means out of sanity. Shouldn't someone who's in sanity be very sane? In means out. Curious."
"And they think we're the mad ones," laughed the smiling Cheshire Cat.

Daniel Coleman

#45. When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#46. Is most of your work out there?" she asked. "Yeah." "Why didn't you move out there?" "'Cause LA is insanity, filled with fruits and nuts. Indiana is sanity, meat and potatoes. I'm a meat and potatoes man.

Kristen Ashley

#47. I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

Edgar Allan Poe

#48. 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

#49. "There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains."

Laura Kinsale

#50. There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

Terence McKenna

#51. MOST OF US make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results, and we believe insanity is a problem.

S. Nassir Ghaemi

#52. When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

David Sheff