441 Quotes About Sanity

Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar--I say, you say, he and she, it, on the other hand, does not say--paying for the privilege of sanity with common coin, with meanings we've agreed on.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Man perpetuates his own laws to keep order in a mandatory constant step ahead of the chaos.

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.

Grief breaks down all but the crazy; it's a secret of your profession, one people don't want to know.

Our times are still not safe and sane enoughfor faces to show ordinary sorrow.

I now and then wished I could go mad”—he said thoughtfully “—it seemed a great deal easier than having always to think what to do next—but it doesna seem to come natural to me.

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.Even if the dogs are small.

Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.