SANITY QUOTES IV

quotations about sanity

The fact is nobody really knows what sanity is but everybody has a general idea about what insanity is. most of these ideas are at best subjective and at worse are the antitheses of sanity itself.

BOB SPENCER

Sanity And Solitude: Cogent Ramblings Of A Lone Aesthetic


The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality -- to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting -- but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued -- if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing -- are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.

ADAM PHILLIPS

Going Sane: Maps of Happiness


Wrong currents are holding me
Beneath the surface of sanity

EVOCATION

"Angel of Torment"


When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

TERRY GOODKIND

The Pillars of Creation


I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.

H. G. WELLS

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Tags: H. G. Wells


We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

WALLACE STEGNER

Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes

Tags: Wallace Stegner


There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

DAN GREENBERG

attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cat Did What?


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.

E. LOCKHART

The Boyfriend List


Take me to the other side
Beyond this world I know
Through madness eternal falls
My sanity will flow

CEMETARY

"Where the Rivers of Madness Flow"


The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

ERICH FROMM

The Sane Society


We're all crazy. I'm crazy, you're crazy. The only thing that you can do is tether yourself to things that are stronger and more steady than you, and that shows your sanity.

NOTHING MORE

"Nothing More offer the most incredible advice at Riot Fest--watch", Alt Press, September 16, 2017


The sanity assassin
Stays up all night stalking
The sanity assassin
Picks off victims like flies
The sanity assassin
Let his fingers do the walking
The sanity assassin
The crack shot between your eyes
He's got you in his sights
He drops a capsule in your drink
And spikes your dreams with madness
The razor in your head
He's the poison in your poison
Drops a capsule in your drink
Drops a capsule in your drink

BAUHAUS

"The Sanity Assassin"


The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

Tags: Marcus Aurelius


Sanity is a compromise.

ALEISTER CROWLEY

Diary of a Drug Fiend

Tags: Aleister Crowley


Old habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Everyone's after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling me(ahh)

METALLICA

"The Frayed Ends of Sanity"


When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

HERMANN HESSE

attributed, And I Quote

Tags: Hermann Hesse


All that has been, all that's to be
No tomorrow, the demise of sanity
All that has been, all that's to be
No tomorrow, the demise of sanity
Straight through the depths of hell, ain't got no soul to sell
Death on death, the eternal funeral bell
You've never known such fear, you've never shed such tears
It'll have you wishin' you were never here

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY

"Demise of Sanity"


In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

OSHO

The Book of Secrets

Tags: Osho


If only fools are satisfied
Take my sanity away

DASH BERLIN

"Fool for Life"