Sanity Quotes

“I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming to remain sane.”
― Florence Welch

“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

“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“If anyone was sane here, he swore it was by accident.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance

“Look ahead to the bright light
Use your hopes to unfold each night
Rejoice in the struggle, stay sane
There’s always sunshine after rain”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Sunshine after Rain: A Collection of Poetry

“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.”
― Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe

“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if one must be incarcerated in the United States, a jail in central Maine would be among the more tolerable spots, but to Knight it was torture. "Bedlam" is how he referred to the place. It never got dark in jail; at eleven p.m., the lights merely became a little duller. "I suspect," he noted, "more damage has been done to my sanity in jail, in months; than years, decades, in the woods.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Now it is all clear, and as plain as a pikestaff. Formerly—I don't know why—everything seemed veiled in a kind of mist. That is, I believe, because people think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

“You thought I was mad. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I am. It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“True vehement love is at the opposite side of sanity.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“A sane man who is untidy seems crazier than a tidy man who is insane.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The only sane option was to retreat back out into the corridor. Fortunately sanity had never really slowed Neverfell down.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

“Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.”
― Thomas M. Disch, Descending

“He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad.

Of course, he was descending.…

But he was still sane. He had chosen his course and now he was following it.”
― Thomas M. Disch, Descending

“Sprinkle a dash of madness into the vanity of your sanity, & keep cooking up genius while dishing out the creative divinity of your humanity.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion

“Sanity begins with knowing your place.”
― C.E. Morgan, The Sport of Kings

“He wondered if sanity had completely forsaken him in a land where nightmares and reality existed side-by-side.”
― Kevin Purdy

“It’s like I need to love you to come back whole from where I sometimes go.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Judas Goat

“My sanity felt like it was hanging over a pit, dangling on a frayed string that I knew was going to break - it was only a matter of when.”
― Sara Secora, Throne of Lies

“Some people are so barely famous that they would each lose their fame if a hundred people who know them were to simultaneously lose their lives … or minds.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“INTROSPECTION AND INSANITY: A GODELIAN PROBLEM

I think it can have suggestive value to translate Godel's Theorem into other domains, provided one specifies in advance that the translations are metaphorical and are not intended to be taken literally. That having been said, I see two major ways of using analogies to connect Godel's Theorem and human thoughts. One involves the problem of wondering about one's sanity. How can you figure out if you are sane? This is a Strange Loop indeed. Once you begin to question your own sanity, you can get trapped in an ever-tighter vortex of self-fulfilling prophecies, though the process is by no means inevitable. Everyone knows that the insane interpret the world via their own peculiarly consistent logic; how can you tell if your own logic is 'peculiar' or not, given that you have only your own logic to judge itself? I don't see any answer. I am just reminded of Godel's second Theorem, which implies that the only versions of formal number theory which assert their own consistency are inconsistent...”
― Douglas Hofstadter

“I wasn't sure if I'd imagined you and it'd be very telling of my mental state if I was bringing sodas to something I'd imagined.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“you might be the lust, but you can't take over the love. so leave the spot or turn it into love.”
― Saheba Atal, Urban Insanity

“Everybody is very smart because they manage to fool you. You are smarter because you allow them to fool you.”
― Saheba Atal, Urban Insanity

“I'm trapped in my mind and I know it's crazy
Hey, it's not that bad at all”
― Kid Cudi