Sanity Quotes

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

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

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body.

How comes it, that thou art then estranged from thyself?

That way madness lies.

Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?

Matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!

Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow...
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?

Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.

Why, this is very midsummer madness.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

The difference between insanity and genius is success.

I don't really trust a sane person.

I don't really trust a sane person.

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

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

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

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.

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

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

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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