Sanity Quotes

“We are poor indeed if we are only sane.”
― D.W. Winnicott

“The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.”
― Cameron Jace, Insanity

“Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.”
― Tawny Lara

“If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?”
― Beth Revis, The Body Electric

“Just because I'm insane doesn't mean I have to act all crazy.”
― Diana Rowland, My Life as a White Trash Zombie

“I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Nobody sane loves working in an office, It’s against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“When psychotherapy began, it was about the practitioner listening to a patient and interpreting what the patient said, in order to afford the patient insights about his or her psyche. But now we understand that the main curative part of psychotherapy is the relationship itself. It appears not to be relevant which psychology school the practitioner belongs to. What matters is the quality of the relationship and the practitioner's belief in what he or she is offering.”
― Philippa Perry

“Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to prove their own sanity. Once one member of the family is hospitalized, it becomes easier for the rest of the family to distance themselves from the problem and to create a clear boundary between the sane and the insane. Recognizing a family member or friend as insane makes others around them, says Kaysen, compare themselves to that individual. Hospitalization allows for distance from this questioning of self that makes us so uncomfortable. Her view that mental illness often includes the entire family means the hospitalized family member becomes an excuse for other family members not to look at their own problems. This explains the willingness to pay the high financial costs of hospitalization.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“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

“You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.”
― Philip Larkin

“If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.”
― Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual

“I can't get his bones
to go down the fucking drain.
I try to stuff the tiny holes,
too tiny for this pain.

I can't get his bones
to break any way for my gain.
Break them back a little too far,
never too far for the sake of sane.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Gutter Kisses and a Hug on Garbage Day

“You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane.”
― Chris Kyle

“Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.”
― Robert Aickman

“I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“[...] nobody anywhere seemed to be willing to ponder for a moment the possibility that a human being who refused to participate, who refused to speak or listen, who failed to ‘interact with his peer group‘, might not be all that crazy, and might even have arrived at an understandable response to the world in which we lived.”
― Craig Harrison

“No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,
Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.”
― Nomthandazo Tsembeni

“It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“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, Coma House

“Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.”
― Carla H. Krueger, Coma House

“He remembers how someone – he forgets who – once said in a sarcastic tone, “Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw as overly-moral because he has flaws, he has weaknesses. How would his mistakes compare to her virtuousness? She used to dislike the competitiveness at work, the way she claimed she could never really make friends with anyone because everything was always so fake and cut-throat and he used to berate her for it, used to tell her to accept it, to realise the truth about life and relationships – but she wouldn’t take it. She was always thinking too hard about everything, always questioning her motives. Surely, if he’d married her, she’d have started questioning his.”
― Carla H. Krueger, Coma House

“Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The Question. It’s enjoyable to be the one with all the secrets, but in her honest mind – the hidden part that’s always sleeping – the secrets he keeps about when and if give her a feeling inside she’s never really understood completely – a sensation she had as a child when she got to the end of a fairytale where never-ending love and happiness were all but expected and wondered whether there might be…. one last page.”
― Carla H. Krueger, Coma House

“Forgiveness can help you to be sane.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The sane genius transforms everything that might disturb us, "the wildest dreams," into something that is familiar and reassuring. It is his artfulness that makes us feel at home; it is the weak writer who makes us feel estranged, or baffled, or lost.”
― Adam Phillips Going Sane

“Self talk and self prayer: When you audible the first and correctly interpret, the white coats correct you in a nuthouse. When you audible the second and misinterpret, the dinner coats swear you to an oath in the White House. Does this make you nuts too? Then outfit your sanity seeking political asylum at my house.”
― Brian Spellman

“No sane man sets out to save the world.”
― S.A. Bolich, Delver