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c85f23a Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence- whether much that is glorious- whether all that is profound- does not spring from disease of thought- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. sanity intelligence insanity Edgar Allan Poe
30aff97 If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. sanity insanity Christopher Moore
7b177de I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane. sanity Neil Gaiman
e094524 Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. laughter sanity drinking sanya harry-dresden Jim Butcher
5f8da10 "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." sanity Terry Pratchett
8fbf55f The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place. sanity people psychology Jim Butcher
485cbb0 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... sanity Edgar Allan Poe
509c612 Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream. sanity dreams insanity Edgar Allan Poe
14a7e0e "Actually, the problem is that I lose my mind," I said. "It's inescapable." madness sanity John Green
7f90920 Too much sanity may be madness -- and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! madness sanity inspirational Dale Wasserman
170458e That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. sanity society Erich Fromm
3661bdc To be able to forget means sanity. sanity forgetting Jack London
865de3d 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 get pushed over. sanity fear voices insanity Margaret Atwood
59e87a3 Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? sanity Susanna Kaysen
7f56cbf The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. sanity majority-view Erich Fromm
370af40 Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain -- madness sanity poetry Emily Dickinson
3954f1f Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. sanity George Eliot
fede3fd 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 sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough. sanity John Irving
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1a9eae4 The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep. sleep sanity mind world Stephen King
17e9cb8 Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! sanity humor life insanity Terry Pratchett
e9cca04 Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it. madness sanity Douglas Adams
2650662 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 mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time. sleep sanity time inspirational rest memory Roger Zelazny
c89bd34 "Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, sanity Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
2c7265a ... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66] sanity nuts tribe insane Anne Lamott
47e303f Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that's only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we're all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism. artists sanity craziness society Tom Robbins
a3fcfcf Worse than madness. Sanity. sanity William Golding
74efa88 One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness madness sanity nuts tribe insanity Anne Lamott
5c47124 "How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll have to test me out." "You have my info," she says. "I'll think about it." "Rain," I say. "That's not your real name." "Does it matter?" "Well, it makes me wonder what else isn't real." "That's because you're a writer," she says. "That's because you make things up for a living." "And?" "And"-- she shrugs--"I've noticed that writers tend to worry about things like that." sanity lies writing reality truth socializing Bret Easton Ellis
545a181 All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. madness sanity instrumental-rationality means modern-age efficiency ends modernity Herman Melville
f118c57 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 Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane. sanity psychiatrist insanity mental-health Philip K. Dick
d97dbac 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 nobody you can contact. sanity loneliness fear William S. Burroughs
5c4e717 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 led me to imagine she was not. sanity short-story insanity Edgar Allan Poe
73193a6 Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need. - Why is that? - What's that, Marshal? - The full moon. You think it makes people crazy? - I know it does.- Found a wrinkle in one of the pages and used his index finger to smooth it out. - How come? - Well, you think about it--the moon affects the tide, right? - Sure. - Has some sort of magnet effect or something on water. - I'll buy that. - Human brain,- Trey said, - is over fifty percent water. - No kidding? - No kidding. You figure ol' Mr. Moon can jerk the ocean around, think what it can do to the head. sanity Dennis Lehane
c5d9ae9 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 the bones are moving easily under the flesh. sanity gratitude life feeling Doris Lessing
09c7079 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 is more dramatic than to be mad. sanity G.K. Chesterton
c49413a "You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles." sanity James A. Owen
d5ca4c5 "Temporary Insanity had come a-knocking and I had shouted "Come on in the door is open." Luckily, Reality had come unexpectedly and found Temporary Insanity roaming the corridors of my mind unchecked, going into rooms, opening cupboards, reading my letters, looking in my underwear drawer, that kind of thing. Reality had run and got Sanity. And after a tussle, they both had managed to throw out Temporary Insanity and slam the door in his face. Temporary Insanity now lay on the gravel in the driveway of my mind, panting and furious, shouting, "She invited me in, you know. She asked me in. She wanted me there." sanity Marian Keyes
c2a43f9 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. sanity kelley armstrong
5e8bff1 If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity? sanity sanity-insanity visions Beth Revis
1e40510 At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply. sanity Herman Melville
5d01313 Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. sanity Barry Hughart
5574334 "The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions which fit the pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation, in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic." sanity individual pathology originality individualism society insanity Erich Fromm
9567968 Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think. mankind sanity man magic trust eternal-champion smiorgan-baldhead Michael Moorcock
3279394 Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet. sanity women witches humor Terry Pratchett
94dafd5 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 more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity. laughter sanity Mercedes Lackey
e709e93 As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today. sanity the-van-alen-legacy insanity Melissa de la Cruz
e60634c 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 blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible. sanity fanatics revolt G.K. Chesterton
29e04b5 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. sanity skye-o-brien Lora Leigh
a6d6ed5 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 astonishment. sanity self-awareness insanity William Faulkner
9ed15e9 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-- --paying for the privilege of sanity with common coin, with meanings we've agreed on. sanity meaning Margaret Atwood
25d5c49 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 I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world. sanity Marisha Pessl
3c5dc38 Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it. madness sanity the-secret-history suicide-note Donna Tartt
d943731 "But I cannot be worrying-worrying all the time about the I have to worry about the truth that can be And that is the difference between losing your marbles drinking the salty sea, or swallowing the stuff from the streams. My Niece-of-Shame believes in the talking cure, eh?" says Alsana, with something of a grin. "Talk, talk, talk and it will be better. Be honest, slice open your heart and spread the red stuff around. But the past is made of more than words, dearie. We married old men, you see? These bumps"--Alsana pats them both --"they will always have daddy-long-legs for fathers. One leg in the present, one in the past. No talking will change this. Their roots will always be tangled. And roots get dug up. Just look in my garden - birds at the coriander every bloody day..." sanity future honesty past truth pregnancy relativism worrying talking Zadie Smith
313a7a6 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. sanity G.K. Chesterton
b48431a 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 him. If I had someone like him, it would prove that I'm stable, and then I wouldn't have to do the work to get there. I am constantly looking for ways to cede control of my worries to someone, anyone. sanity love Emma Forrest
2ab0b40 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. madness sanity tragedy life Alain de Botton
829899b "And I still say it was just a coincidence;' he muttered pugnaciously. 'You say it too! Look at me and say it! It was just a coincidence. That happened to be the nearest place on the dial where they both met exactly, those two hands. My blows dented them. They got stuck there just as the works died, that was all. Stay sane whatever you do. Say it over and over. It was just a coincidence!' Outside the tall French windows, in the velvety night-sky, the stars in all their glory twinkled derisively in at them. ("Speak To Me Of Death")" sanity fate desitny curse Cornell Woolrich
a683024 I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-idiotic called science fiction. I think sf is a literature which by its very nature requires that you be at least a little sane, that you know at least a little something. You must abdicate the right to be ignorant in order to enjoy science fiction, which most people are unwilling to do; and you must learn, if not actually how to think things through, at least what the trick looks like when it's done. Frequent injections will keep a lot of madness away. sanity science-fiction Spider Robinson
7d6c470 I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it. sanity psychology Susanna Kaysen
5ef67af Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to prove their own sanity. Once one member of the family is hospitalized, it becomes easier for the rest of the family to distance themselves from the problem and to create a clear boundary between the sane and the insane. Recognizing a family member or friend as insane makes others around them, says Kaysen, compare themselves to that individual. Hospitalization allows for distance from this questioning of self that makes us so uncomfortable. Her view that mental illness often includes the entire family means the hospitalized family member becomes an excuse for other family members not to look at their own problems. This explains the willingness to pay the high financial costs of hospitalization. sanity family financial hospitalization-as-treatment hospitalization wikipedia mental-illness Susanna Kaysen
f483ea3 "I wish you were here," I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination. I hear his voice again, so real that I'm worried I'm about to fall into another hallucination. Maybe that's what I really want. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?" sanity hallucination insanity Beth Revis
f00dc4b ... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad. sanity Elizabeth Kostova
724db5f Messy love is better than none. I guess. I'm no authority on sane living. sanity passion love messy-love Margaret Atwood
0a6c984 No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness? sanity reality rationality Rebecca Goldstein
6bea6d2 So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane? Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand? sanity life Ann Rinaldi
550602e If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely. sanity solitude morality society self-esteem Susan Wiggs
1c0e74c In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye. sanity Robert Goddard
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