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...

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.

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn’t go crazy. At least not today.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could...

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out,” said the shopkeeper. “That’s what I’ve always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

Put the price only on products and not on a person, either self or anyone, as products need packaging and place for promotion while a person needs originality to create own space and firstly BE...

In the dark, neglected gutter running the length of a nearby secluded side street lies a small, lifeless bird. This is the blackcap – the unaccustomed northern nightingale – a creature with a charcoal greyness...

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…

Losing your mind is preferable to losing your woman, because if you lose your woman you will also lose your mind, and then you’re left with nothing.

You’d be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don’t understand your own capacities.

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody...

Nothing natural could cause this kind of fear. It goes beyond a fear of physical harm and into the realm of mental and spiritual. Like the fear of losing your sanity, of losing your soul.

All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is...

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

What this means is a return to sanity. There has been so much hype and so many promises made and promises broken.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

It’s a sad state of affairs when I’m the one bringing sanity to the equation

but i’m still here. sometimes i wonder why i’m still waiting. sometimes i’m shaking. that’s how you make me. sometimes i question why i’m still here. sometimes i think that i’m crazy.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I’m close.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

If I was crazy, would I know it? That’s what being crazy was, wasn’t it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar–I say, you say, he and she, it, on...

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Gossiping’s part of witchcraft,’ said Tiffany. ‘They’re checking to see if they’ve gone batty yet.

It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

He’s got things to do, places to be, realities to believe in. He can feel the phone he’s been told to keep switched off in this communication-free zone vibrating in his pocket and he thanks...

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Some of the stuff that I write really concerns me. If I’m not institutionalised by 30 I’ll seriously question the judgement of my friends and family.

As long as you doubt your sanity, you can’t be insane.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended’.

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

She wasn’t about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn’t follow me, because oftentimes, people...

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The...

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Just because I’m insane doesn’t mean I have to act all crazy.

It is a well-worn truth that cops grow callous, a cliché so tattered that it is even common on television. All cops face things every day that are so gruesome, brutal, and bizarre that no...

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.

The founder of a religion must be able to turn water into wine — cure with a word the blind and lame, and raise with a simple touch the dead to life. It was necessary...

The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.

It’s unpleasant magic, the kind that darkens the senses, the kind no one wants to experience, but once in a lifetime might not be able to avoid.