Sanity Quotes - Page 2

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

Religion is a collective insanity.

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.

Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the dream amongst themselves and didn’t realize it. It’s when they invited the public inside their world that everything went wrong.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.