#Sanity Quotes

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

“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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

“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.”

“When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.”

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

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

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

“No sane man will dance.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Sanity is not statistical.”

“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.”

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”

“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”

“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.”

“The more intelligent, the less sane”

“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

“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.”

“Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.”

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