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...

People don’t deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

Now, we shall be able to judge the extent of the spiritual undernourishment if we look at all these movements from another angle: not as errors but rather as attempts to find healing. I use...

I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?”Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, “Yes, I’m afraid of spiders.””Were you always?””What are you, a psychiatrist?”Pritam took a breath. He could feel Laine’s eyes on him,...

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them.

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half...

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are...

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Damn it,” I muttered. “What?” asked Adrian. “I hate when you’re the sane one. That’s my job.” “Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe...

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we’re supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly...

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.