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 can’t get his bonesto go down the fucking drain.I try to stuff the tiny holes,too tiny for this pain.I can’t get his bonesto break any way for my gain.Break them back a little too...

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

You think you’re losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it’s not all gone.

There’s a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had...

Christ,” he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,”You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven’t you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step...

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten...

You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated...

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing...

Yet mad I am not…and very surely do I not dream.

Ariella was silent, and I reached out to take her hand, squeezing as if it were a lifeline, holding me to sanity.

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It’s undignified.

Nobody sane wants to disappoint himself intentionally.

When psychotherapy began, it was about the practitioner listening to a patient and interpreting what the patient said, in order to afford the patient insights about his or her psyche. But now we understand that...

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.

The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.

Here lies a gentleman boldWho was so very braveHe went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the graveDeath had on him no hold.By the world he set small store–He frightened it to the core–Yet...

Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes...

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn’t pay to be sane.

Many grow old with ages, but some attains age with wisdom.

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity … Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved...

I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner...

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

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

[…] nobody anywhere seemed to be willing to ponder for a moment the possibility that a human being who refused to participate, who refused to speak or listen, who failed to ‘interact with his peer...

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Once people get hung up on theology, they’ve lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

I’d actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there’d be no limit to the fiends...

Don’t be too hard on yourself! Sanity doesn’t want to go haywire.

Nobody sane loves working in an office, It’s against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.

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

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

I don’t worry about what other people think of me. It’s one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn’t give a hoot what others thought. He was who he...

Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.

[Solitary confinement] is terrible. That is terrible. You’re in a grave. You can’t do anything. Everything’s brought to you and you’re in a room all day, except to come out of the showers. So when...

It’s like there was a fellow in every man that’s done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same...

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.

An inextricable relationship between the foolishness and the selfishness is like that of an egg and a chicken. No one knows which came first and perhaps even none cares about it.

I have always hated lies; my own and everyone else’s.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left — sanity. But there was just enough in him of the...