441 Quotes About Sanity

Reality now and again becomes like a vengeful troll, and most notably, when it comes to passion: When reality and passion divorce, it makes passion look crazy.

[...] nobody anywhere seemed to be willing to ponder for a moment the possibility that a human being who refused to participate, who refused to speak or listen, who failed to ‘interact with his peer group‘, might not be all that crazy, and might even have arrived at an understandable response to the world in which we lived.

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

You can say that if you went crazy then you were crazy, and you couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't. But that isn't the way it works, not in the real world. I mean, that's the sad thing about insane people; almost all of them know perfectly well that something is seriously wrong with them; that's what makes them so scared, so depressed. They know.

The holiness of solitude is the gift of creativity.

The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude.

Sanity is not necessarily a connection with reality but almost always, it is an attachment with majority.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.