Sanity Quotes
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![David Lynch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1675865742i/13043._UX200_CR0,61,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
![Soulla Christodoulou](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1521377683i/17103481._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“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”
― Sunshine after Rain: A Collection of Poetry
Use your hopes to unfold each night
Rejoice in the struggle, stay sane
There’s always sunshine after rain”
― Sunshine after Rain: A Collection of Poetry
![Freeman Dyson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1366330437i/5569343._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.”
― Disturbing the Universe
― Disturbing the Universe
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
![Michael Finkel](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1484405381i/206768._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
― The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
![Nikolai Gogol](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1655634538i/232932._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
― Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
![Daphne du Maurier](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1422444467i/2001717._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“You thought I was mad. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I am. It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil.”
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![Elizabeth Kostova](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1360044214i/5918._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.”
― Bag of Bones
― Bag of Bones
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.”
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![Frances Hardinge](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1616619207i/119830._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The only sane option was to retreat back out into the corridor. Fortunately sanity had never really slowed Neverfell down.”
― A Face Like Glass
― A Face Like Glass
![Thomas M. Disch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215627384i/29998.jpg)
“Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.”
― Descending
― Descending
![Thomas M. Disch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215627384i/29998.jpg)
“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.”
― Descending
Of course, he was descending.…
But he was still sane. He had chosen his course and now he was following it.”
― Descending
![Curtis Tyrone Jones](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1684637209i/6023661._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Sprinkle a dash of madness into the vanity of your sanity, & keep cooking up genius while dishing out the creative divinity of your humanity.”
― Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion
― Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion
![Kevin Purdy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1498110174i/16969397._UX200_CR0,60,200,200_.jpg)
“He wondered if sanity had completely forsaken him in a land where nightmares and reality existed side-by-side.”
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![Sara Secora](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1540174401i/15397740._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Throne of Lies
― Throne of Lies
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Douglas R. Hofstadter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1265604859i/3034502._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“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...”
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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...”
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![Mandy Ashcraft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1522365999i/17892262._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Small Orange Fruit
― Small Orange Fruit
![Saheba Atal](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1605734295i/18013193._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“you might be the lust, but you can't take over the love. so leave the spot or turn it into love.”
― Urban Insanity
― Urban Insanity
![Saheba Atal](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1605734295i/18013193._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Everybody is very smart because they manage to fool you. You are smarter because you allow them to fool you.”
― Urban Insanity
― Urban Insanity
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