Self talk and self prayer: When you audible the first and correctly interpret, the white coats correct you in a nuthouse. When you audible the second and misinterpret, the dinner coats swear you to an...

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective...

I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.

Somewhere, beyond blackness, some tyrant host swaps breathing for airlessness to test me. I had no concept of myself, no link to the things I knew. It is hard to explain the lack of anything...

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

We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won’t allow us to see, to...

Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind–is to be crazy, not healthy.

Sanity is for the weak

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp...

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I’ll never be sane.

I used to love lulling, running water – a sound so infrequent in cityscapes. Its loss always made me feel lonely when I lived amongst concrete.

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane...

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn’t sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had...

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.

Finding love should not cause you to lose your mind.

What I cannot love, I overlook.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded…

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It’s fragile up there.

I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is...

Forgiveness can help you to be sane.

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

To be able to forget means sanity.

To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

No sane man sets out to save the world.

The second rat, of course, may have been the first rat farther uptown, in which case I am either being followed or the rat keeps the same rounds and hours I do. I think sanity,...

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

Truth starts with a sense.

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.”Henry Ward Beecher

Life is too short to forget who you love, lose your sanity or mince words…

Our rocky ledge overlooking the valley. Perhaps a little less green than usual, but the blackberry bushes hang heavy with fruit. Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through...

If you haven’t lost your mind yet, that’s because you haven’t seen very much.

All things being equal, he preferred to do business with people who were sane.

Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

You’re a very odd man,” said Bert.”I get that more often than you’d think,” replied Charles.

You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a...

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

27.So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper...

If we were to gain God’s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings...

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people’s tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.