441 Quotes About Sanity

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

Sanity is a never-ending tug of war between oneself, pulling one’s attention towards happiness, and one’s mind, pulling it towards unhappiness.

Nobody in good health and sanity invites death.

My own mental well-being is a noose resting on the curve of my breastbone, just waiting for some traumatic event to force the rope taut. But maybe it doesn’t have to be some life-altering event that pulls me under the tide, but rather something minor, insignificant, like a pebble thrown into the ocean of life.

Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.