Sanity Quotes

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

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

No sane man will dance.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Sanity is not statistical.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

The more intelligent, the less sane

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.