sanity quotes

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

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

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

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

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

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.