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...

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.

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.