SANITY QUOTES
quotations about sanity
One of the definitions of sanity, itself, is the ability to tell real from unreal. Shall we need a new definition?
ALVIN TOFFLER
Future Shock
Sanity now it's beyond me
There's no choice
OZZY OSBOURNE
"Diary of a Madman"
If we lose our sanity ...
We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots,
the howl of the utterly lost
howling their nowhereness.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"At Last"
Sanity is a notch above plain old keeping it together.
JOY WATSON
From Stress to Sanity: A Simple Guide to Calm and Empower
When your sanity is a hurricane
And your heartache is tidal wave
Oh you can pull me under
Oh you can pull me under
TIESTO
"A Town Called Paradise"
Sanity becomes the fantasy that keeps us sane; a rhetorical prop in an unplotted, threatening world.
ADAM PHILLIPS
Going Sane: Maps of Happiness
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
SUSANNA KAYSEN
Girl, Interrupted
Where sanity is
there God is.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"God"
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?
C. S. LEWIS
Perelandra
Lead me back to sanity's side
I've been a few places darling
Experimented and looked around
It's time I was returning
Get my feet back on solid ground
LITTLE RIVER BAND
"Sanity's Side"
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
G. K. CHESTERTON
"On the Classics", Selected Essays
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out.... That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.
TERRY PRATCHETT
The Light Fantastic
Just on the border of your waking mind
There lies another time
Where darkness and light are one
And as you tread the halls of sanity
You feel so glad to be, unable to go beyond
I have a message from another time
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
"Prologue"
Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The Handmaid's Tale
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Lila
There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.
L. RON HUBBARD
Dianetics 55!
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
ERICH FROMM
The Sane Society
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Nominalist and Realist", Essays
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity -- it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
NORMAN MAILER
An American Dream