quotations about sanity
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"
Wrong currents are holding me
Beneath the surface of sanity
EVOCATION
"Angel of Torment"
The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality -- to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting -- but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued -- if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing -- are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.
ADAM PHILLIPS
Going Sane: Maps of Happiness
When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
TERRY GOODKIND
The Pillars of Creation
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.
WALLACE STEGNER
Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes
There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
DAN GREENBERG
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cat Did What?
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.
H. G. WELLS
The Island of Dr. Moreau
I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.
E. LOCKHART
The Boyfriend List
We're all crazy. I'm crazy, you're crazy. The only thing that you can do is tether yourself to things that are stronger and more steady than you, and that shows your sanity.
NOTHING MORE
"Nothing More offer the most incredible advice at Riot Fest--watch", Alt Press, September 16, 2017
Take me to the other side
Beyond this world I know
Through madness eternal falls
My sanity will flow
CEMETARY
"Where the Rivers of Madness Flow"
The sanity assassin
Stays up all night stalking
The sanity assassin
Picks off victims like flies
The sanity assassin
Let his fingers do the walking
The sanity assassin
The crack shot between your eyes
He's got you in his sights
He drops a capsule in your drink
And spikes your dreams with madness
The razor in your head
He's the poison in your poison
Drops a capsule in your drink
Drops a capsule in your drink
BAUHAUS
"The Sanity Assassin"
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
ERICH FROMM
The Sane Society
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Sanity is a compromise.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
Diary of a Drug Fiend
Old habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Everyone's after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling me(ahh)
METALLICA
"The Frayed Ends of Sanity"
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSE
attributed, And I Quote
All that has been, all that's to be
No tomorrow, the demise of sanity
All that has been, all that's to be
No tomorrow, the demise of sanity
Straight through the depths of hell, ain't got no soul to sell
Death on death, the eternal funeral bell
You've never known such fear, you've never shed such tears
It'll have you wishin' you were never here
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
"Demise of Sanity"
In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.
OSHO
The Book of Secrets
If only fools are satisfied
Take my sanity away
DASH BERLIN
"Fool for Life"