441 Quotes About Sanity

Try not to assess your sanity through others. Those who think you should be institutionalized are overreacting and those who think you're stable just aren't paying attention.

Sometimes the actions of the sane make no sense.

Escapism preserves our sanity when the ever-increasing complexity and pace of modern life becomes too much.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. - AKIRA KUROSAWA

To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

He turned his mind back to another unwelcome task: mentally composing his letter to Chase. Dear friend, you were right. I'll be very late seemed too short, and would give his friend far too much to crow about; but I must venture through time with the pirate queen would be met with confusion, and fear for Nicholas's mind.

Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.

I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.