Sanity Quotations

Sanity is madness put to good uses. ~George Santayana, Little Essays

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. ~Author Unknown

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?" ~Madame Swetchine

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ~Author Unknown

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ~Rita Mae Brown

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ~Paul Val�ry, Mauvaises pens�es et autres, 1942

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. ~R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~Robin Williams

I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere. ~Author Unknown

I'll be the in to your sane. ~Numan

I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. ~William Shakespeare

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

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

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. ~William Ellery Channing

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ~William H. Mauldin

There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know. ~John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, 1681

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ~Aristotle

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~Edwin Denby

A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. ~Emily Dickinson

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness. ~Charles Baudelaire

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ~Diogenes

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of the Mind," Moral Essays

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. ~G.B. Burgin

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. -- Alvin Toffler

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. Erich Fromm

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG von (1749-1832, Playwright, philosopher)

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. POE, EDGAR ALLEN (1809-1849, Poet, author)

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes

(reason for living) madness