I don’t desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse...

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Dwelling on the loneliness inherent in a city such as this when you dream of endless mountains and expanses of blue sky is a recipe for torment.

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,’ was his mildly cadaverous reply.

That’s a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind,” he reaffirmed her.

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness – in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of...

He couldn’t even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn’t yell at those who weren’t exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren’t? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

I can’t get his bonesto go down the fucking drain.I try to stuff the tiny holes,too tiny for this pain.I can’t get his bonesto break any way for my gain.Break them back a little too...

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

You think you’re losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it’s not all gone.

There’s a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had...

Christ,” he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,”You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven’t you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step...

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten...

You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated...

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing...

Yet mad I am not…and very surely do I not dream.

Ariella was silent, and I reached out to take her hand, squeezing as if it were a lifeline, holding me to sanity.

Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It’s undignified.

Nobody sane wants to disappoint himself intentionally.

When psychotherapy began, it was about the practitioner listening to a patient and interpreting what the patient said, in order to afford the patient insights about his or her psyche. But now we understand that...

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.

When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.

The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.

Here lies a gentleman boldWho was so very braveHe went to lengths untold,And on the brink of the graveDeath had on him no hold.By the world he set small store–He frightened it to the core–Yet...

Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes...

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn’t pay to be sane.

Many grow old with ages, but some attains age with wisdom.

Right now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!

Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity … Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved...

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.