Sanity Quotes
Sanity is madness put to good uses.
- George Santayana
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
- Akira Kurosawa
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
- Samuel Beckett
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.
- Luis Miguel
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
- William Shakespeare
Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
- David Low
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
- Janet Long
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
- William H. Mauldin
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
- John Russell
I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.
- Studs Terkel
Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.
- William Shakespeare
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle
Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.
- Diogenes
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
- Kenneth Tynan
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Insanity a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
- R. D. Lang
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
- Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self worth.
- George Weinberg
A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.
- William Ellery
There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.
- John Dryden
You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.
- Matt Groening
Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
- Charles Baudelaire
A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
- Leon Blum
Sanity: that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
- Erich Fromm
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
- Heinrich Heine
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
- Fredrich August
Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
- Frank Gelett Burgess
A fanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
- Robert Frost
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
- Henrik Tikkanen
A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
- Paul Valéry
I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.
- Hermann Goering
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
- George Price
I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
- William Shakespeare
Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
- Harry J. Anslinger


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