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.

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.