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Sanity Quote #1

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

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 —
Emily Dickinson

Sanity Quote #2

[...] 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 group‘, might not be all that crazy, and might even have arrived at an understandable response to the world in which we lived.
Craig Harrison
Sanity Quote #3

[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 I would come out, I would entertain myself by singing, doing little mock concerts. And then when I was in the room, I would develop a routine. Like I have a lot of hair under here, so I would take my hair down and take all day to braid it on purpose. Stretch the hours out. Then I might write. And I would clean the floor. And I would look out the window. And then I'd devote a whole day to just reading. I was Christian then, trying to be. So I would read the whole Bible. I would break it down into sections. You're in a grave and you're trying to live. That's how to best describe it: trying to live in a grave. You're trying to live 'cause you're not dead yet, but nobody hears you when you call out, 'Hey, I'm alive!
Megan Sweeney
Sanity Quote #4

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
Kate Bornstein
Sanity Quote #5

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 lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it.
Psyche RoxasMendoza
Sanity Quote #6

A more fundamental problem with labelling human distress and deviance as mental disorder is that it reduces a complex, important, and distinct part of human life to nothing more than a biological illness or defect, not to be processed or understood, or in some cases even embraced, but to be ‘treated’ and ‘cured’ by any means possible—often with drugs that may be doing much more harm than good. This biological reductiveness, along with the stigma that it attracts, shapes the person’s interpretation and experience of his distress or deviance, and, ultimately, his relation to himself, to others, and to the world. Moreover, to call out every difference and deviance as mental disorder is also to circumscribe normality and define sanity, not as tranquillity or possibility, which are the products of the wisdom that is being denied, but as conformity, placidity, and a kind of mediocrity.
Neel Burton
Sanity Quote #7

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.
Kurt Vonnegut
Sanity Quote #8

A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.
Carla H. Krueger
Sanity Quote #9

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
Herman Melville
Sanity Quote #10

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.
Doris Lessing
Sanity Quote #11

All things being equal, he preferred to do business with people who were sane.
Amanda Quick
Sanity Quote #12

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 art itself). And your worrying about this ought not to be a tortured thing - God knows there's enough torture growing wild in everybody's life so that nobody in his right mind needs to cultivate it - but a serene thing. Don't, in other words, jazz yourself up into a nervous wreck. Be quiet, be as sane as you can, and let the work come out of you. If it's to come, it will; if it's not, no amount of self-induced frenzy is going to hep it along.
One final piece of solemn, teacherly advice, and I do mean this: Try to like yourself a little better.
Blake Bailey
Sanity Quote #13

An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.
Ingrid
Sanity Quote #14

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)
Cornell Woolrich
Sanity Quote #15

Annie winced. Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.
Tami Hoag
Sanity Quote #16

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?
Charles Dickens
Sanity Quote #17

Are the fae ever sane? We live in a world that isn't there half the time. We claim that windmills are giants, and because we say it, it's true. Our lives become myth and legend, until even we can't tell what we truly are from what we're told we ought to be. How can we live that way and be considered sane? My lord was never sane, but he was my love once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that the once upon a times go when they die.
Seanan McGuire
Sanity Quote #18

Ariella was silent, and I reached out to take her hand, squeezing as if it were a lifeline, holding me to sanity.
Julie Kagawa
Sanity Quote #19

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
Dorothea Tanning
Sanity Quote #20

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Alan Ayckbourn
Sanity Quote #21

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.
Melissa de la Cruz
Sanity Quote #22

As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.
Miles Keaton Andrew
Sanity Quote #23

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.
Carla H. Krueger
Sanity Quote #24

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.
Herman Melville
Sanity Quote #25

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.
George Orwell
Sanity Quote #26

At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the world, but for a moment, then leave. At the edge, where life losses its edginess, and thoughts we will become one, someday. At the edge the sun drops, the ring falls, and senses of raindrops climb upwards to the gray sky.
Anthony Liccione
Sanity Quote #27

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan
Sanity Quote #28

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.
G.K. Chesterton
Sanity Quote #29

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.
G.K. Chesterton
Sanity Quote #30

But how sane can the mind really be if it doesn't even know its own depth?
A.R.H

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