Sanity Quotes - Page 3

A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

I want to be a pretty corpse.

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

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

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.