Thoughts of Sanity Quotes in English with Images

Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality which indeed may be a rare achievement.

- Michael Leunig

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

- Georges Bataille

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

- John Irving

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

- Doris Lessing

We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I’m well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.

- Mark Lawrence,

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence- whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound - does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

- James Thurber

Sanity Quotes List and Sayings

Sanity begins with knowing your place.

- Sanity Quotes by C.E. Morgan

All of us have mental health issues; some of us just fake sanity better.

- Runa Pigden

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.

- N. F. Simpson

Most people are just a waste of sanity.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotation

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

- Kenneth Tynan Quotes

He could feel himself gladly abandoning sanity.

- A Quotation From A.L. Kennedy

Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.

- Morgan Rhodes

Sanity becomes the fantasy that keeps us sane; a rhetorical prop in an unplotted, threatening world.

- Adam Phillips

In a lot of ways, sanity is a performance.

- Rachel Lindsay

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

- Mark Twain

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

- H. Beam Piper

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t really trust a sane person.

- Lyle Alzado

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

- Tim Burton

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

- George Santayana

There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

- Oscar Levant

You’re only given a little spark of madness.  You mustn’t lose it.

- Robin Williams

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

- George Santayana

I lost my sanity on the day that I became a republican.

- Anthony T. Hincks

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

- Salvador Dali

Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.

- Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

- J.K. Rowling

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

- Seneca

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

- Derek R. Audette

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

- Anna Casttilo

I have not been sane since the day I learnt that sanity is gravity of the abyss of subjugation.

- Mecha Constantine

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse

- Chogyam Trungpa

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

- Hunter S. Thompson

To call God’s calling into question is not really about questioning God. Rather, it’s about calling my sanity into question.

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

- Nancy Sleeth

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

- William Dement

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

- William Shakespeare

To be able to forget means sanity.

- Jack London

Sanity that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

- Matthew Arnold

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

- Jean Dubuffet

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

-Wallace Stegner

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

- Ashly Lorenzana *

The route back to sanity is to acknowledge your insanity.

- Steven Magee

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

- William Shakespeare

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

- Christopher Moore

Sanity is a cozy lie.

- Susan Sontag

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

- Miguel de Cervantes

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

- Mary McMullen

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

- Henrik Tikkanen

As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.

- Miles Keaton Andrew

Sanity is an illusion. Created by the minds of people who fear the wicked.

- Alexander Thol

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

- Erich Fromm

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

- John Russell

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

- David Bain

Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.

- Freeman Dyson

Don't be too hard on yourself! Sanity doesn't want to go haywire.

- Toba Beta

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

- George Santayana

Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

- George Price

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

- Josephine Hart

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

- Michael D. Barnes

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

- Neil Gaima

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

- Robert M. Pirsig

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

- Barbara Marciniak

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

- Dorothea Tanning

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

- D. H. Lawrence

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

- Alvin Toffler

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

- Margaret Atwood

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

- George Orwell

Sanity is a sliding scale for we all hold beliefs that may not correspond to reality.

- Julian Gold

Sanity is not something you find; sanity is something you either have or don't.

- Byron Pulsifer

Too much sanity may be madness - and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

- Dale Wasserman

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

- Akira Kurosawa *

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

- Heinrich Heine Download or Share

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

- Hermann Hesse Download or Share

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

- Janet Long Download or Share

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

- John Russell Download or Share

I am a artist; I don't squeeze up myself in sanity.

- Mecha Constantine Download or Share

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

- Edgar Allan Poe Download or Share

Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.

- André Gide Download or Share

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

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Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.

- Morgan Rhodes

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

- Ted Morgan

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

- Tahir Shah

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.

- George Orwell

Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.

- Karen Quan

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

- Mark Lawrence

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness.  Think of your three best friends.  If they’re okay, then it’s you.

- Rita Mae Brown Quotes

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

- Eckhart Tolle

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

- Euripides

When great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

- Sanity Quotes by Henrik Tikkanen