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...

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.