SANITY QUOTES II

quotations about sanity

Sanity quote

Sanity is a full-time job.

BAD RELIGION

"Vanity"


For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

JEAN DEBUFFET

The New Yorker, June 16, 1973

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Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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O' sanity, o' sanity
What am I to do with you?
Drink up, shoot up, anything you please
But she's always standing behind me like a devil in hell

JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO

"O'Sanity"

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I am not merely spinning senseless paradoxes when I say that we, the sane ones, are out of our minds. The mind is what the ego is unconscious of. We are unconscious of our minds. Our minds are not unconscious. Our minds are conscious of us. Ask yourself who and what it is that dreams our dreams. Our unconscious minds? The Dreamer who dreams our dreams knows far more of us than we know of it. It is only from a remarkable position of alienation that the source of life, the Fountain of Life, is experienced as the It. The mind of which we are unaware, is aware of us. It is we who are out of our minds. We need not be unaware of the inner world.

R. D. LAING

"Transcendental Experience in Relation to Religion and Psychosis", The Psychedelic Review, 1964

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Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most.

OZZY OSBOURNE

attributed, Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken

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It's only sane to be insane
Psychotic builds a castle
And neurotic lives in it
I don't know what to do with my sanity
When the world's at the verge of calamity

JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO

"O'Sanity"

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Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.

ALVIN TOFFLER

Future Shock

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Sanity brings pain
but madness is a vile thing.

EURIPIDES

Hippolytus

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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

MARK TWAIN

"The Mysterious Stranger", The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories


If all sane men were marked with chalk, and the insane with charcoal, there would soon be a scarcity of chalk.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.

LEWIS BLACK

Nothing's Sacred

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Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Nemesis"

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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Sanity is not statistical.

GEORGE ORWELL

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Too much truth overshadows the lime lies
And what lies beneath the clouds is an
Altered perception and I'll pay for sanity
But sanity don't come cheap

SILVERCHAIR

"Luv Your Life"


Sanity is a sliding scale ... for we all hold beliefs that may not correspond to reality.

JULIAN GOLD

Life is Simple


I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

letter to George W. Eveleth, January 4, 1848

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If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Practical Demonkeeping


There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

HALLUCINOGEN

"Demention"