Quotes on Sanity

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

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

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Collective madness is called sanity.

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.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.