Sanity Quotes

“When humans are not able to fathom the behaviour, actions, and motivations of others, they dismiss them as insane.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“Are you insane?”
“When humans are not able to fathom the behaviour, actions, and motivations of others, they dismiss them as insane.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“Too much sanity is madness. The greatest madness of all is to see the world as it is, and not as it should be.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha

“I know that I am—all that I am.
And all that I am
is full and ripe.
 
All that I am is standing still,
waiting and watching
and bursting with life.
 
Holding the straining seams of my skin,
my passion and wit
and my sanity in.
 
Waiting for someone
to soothe and to say
“I understand. You’re home.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

“We are all too often robbed of an opportunity to squeeze joy out of life by the result of our desire to create or perpetuate the impression that we are not stupid, childish, or crazy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I have come to this hill to see the sun go down, to recover sanity and put myself again in relation with Nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861

“God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Arguing a tree disposition or stand outside it's fruits would ultimately reveal a man's ignorance and his state of sanity.”
― Seun Ayilara

“Consuming caffeine gives us a taste of insanity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It's strange, isn't it?" the woman said in a pensive voice. "Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it...But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

“For the first time, I find myself wondering if facing the truth and being sane aren't the same thing, if they aren't two things that tend to go together. I'm starting to understand that they might be correlational rather than synonyms.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“I now and then wished I could go mad”—he said thoughtfully “—it seemed a great deal easier than having always to think what to do next—but it doesna seem to come natural to me.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

“Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back into sanity.”
― Mary Jane Ward, The Snake Pit

“JOY and PURPOSE in Meaningful Work WILL KEEP YOU SANE.”
― LANCE WALLNAU, 9/4/21

“A certified, bona fide nutcase': Although he was indeed someone, he believed that he was more of a nut than a man. He just needed somebody to break him, to make him lovelier, but that somebody had to be even nuttier.”
― Criss Jami

“I was uncomfortable around those who were already mad. They made me doubt my own sanity.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Sanity is nothing more than a state of mind and it's highly overrated”
― Mike Georgsen

“Putting caffeine in our body puts us in the shoes of the insane.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes a person has an out-of-mind experience.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you listen to someone talking to themselves, what they are saying is basically the same as what people are always saying to themselves in their own minds. The difference is generally not in the content, but that they are saying it aloud. The line between talking silently to oneself and talking those same thoughts out loud, unchecked and unawares, is the demarcation of sanity. If one wants to venture into extra-sensory experiences of life then one should have a very firm grip of that line. Otherwise, the fine line of sanity will be transgressed and the person may have a hard time retrieving it which explains why many spiritual groups are full of loonies.”
― Donna Goddard, Purnima

“When much of the music, instruments and musicians are all tuned to a variation of frequencies, some melodies then, prone, to split some notes.”
― Psixaristw

“Whichever direction our [desires] pushes us, we must become more [concious] about continuously pulling in the [opposite] direction.

Back to Center.”
― Psixomaxaristw

“I left my sanity at the foot of your bed.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Every sane person is an actor, at least usually. Some sane people just happen to also act professionally.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I was over the edge until I got a hand hold in sanity.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“To psychology, everybody's insane.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“What happens when our sanity leaves home?
WARS!”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“How often is insanity the excuse for sanity run amuck?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Cassandra, foreseeing not the end of Troy, but the end of everything that came after Troy. The victory of Greece remains the most important victory of our history; it not only inspired the first text of Western literature but perhaps is the very text of ‘the West’ itself. This victory, prefigured in the mad rants of the woman who defied the god of truth, could not have been won if anyone had listened to Cassandra. But then again, she did not die before she took her madness into the heart of Greece: it echoed through Agamemnon’s palace, through Aeschylus’s Oresteia, continued as shout and murmur through literature. Nonetheless, the book that frames these screams is called (defiantly perhaps?) a science, and gay.”
― Silke-Maria Weineck, The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche

“The toilet is full. It's time to change it.”
― Anthony T. Hincks