quotations about sanity
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
ECKHART TOLLE
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
SHIRLEY JACKSON
The Haunting of Hill House
If we take the idea that sanity is a state in which human beings are able to create, are able to create the elements in themselves into a person and to be free to be loving, then madness ... is what prevents it and makes it not possible.
NEVILLE SYMINGTON
The Spirit of Sanity
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those. The few that imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the rest are no happier than the sane.
MARK TWAIN
"The Mysterious Stranger", The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
You lead me on the edge of sanity
There's not much left, just take a breath
STAIND
"Take a Breath"
You lived your life upon a knife edge of sanity
As your grip begins to fail, the words echo through your mind
Look what has become of your world
(Your world)
BOLT THROWER
"Shreds of Sanity"
Just a step away from happiness and sanity blurs.
NICKEL CREEK
"Eveline"
Sanity, sanity
Why don't you let me go?
Let go, let go
Cut it out
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO
"O'Sanity"
Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
The Killing Dance
To be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDON
The Star Rover
Lead me back to sanity's side
Out so far I never thought that I would get back
Nearly touched a star
I burnt my fingers tryin' to hold it
LITTLE RIVER BAND
"Sanity's Side"
Now "sanity" is a very loaded word. It's hard to define it without appeal to terms such as "normal", and that's even worse, because we have a very mixed set of notions about normality.
JULIAN GOLD
Life is Simple
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision -- the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
JOSEPHINE HART
Damage
Madness is sanity in another guise, and sanity is second cousin to madness.
RON CUNNINGHAM
"'UMMU' an absorbing examination of madness and sanity", Gainesville Sun, May 18, 2017
When sanity is merely the manifestation of a set of created norms based on the majority's perception of 1%, it can hardly be deemed worthy. Sanity can twist and change like water to accommodate the 1%. Thus, while sanity is [a] crucial and necessary invention to achieving order, it must be remembered that it is an invention, and that it can be manipulated.
ANGELO LETIZIA
The Battle for Existence
Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG
attributed, Women Know Everything!
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now.
DON MCLEAN
"Vincent"
The fact is nobody really knows what sanity is but everybody has a general idea about what insanity is. most of these ideas are at best subjective and at worse are the antitheses of sanity itself.
BOB SPENCER
Sanity And Solitude: Cogent Ramblings Of A Lone Aesthetic