441 Quotes About Sanity

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

Healing from childhood abuse is not going mad, it is going sane.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

If you haven’t lost your mind yet, that’s because you haven’t seen very much.

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

When psychotherapy began, it was about the practitioner listening to a patient and interpreting what the patient said, in order to afford the patient insights about his or her psyche. But now we understand that the main curative part of psychotherapy is the relationship itself. It appears not to be relevant which psychology school the practitioner belongs to. What matters is the quality of the relationship and the practitioner's belief in what he or she is offering.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.

No sane man sets out to save the world.