Sanity quotations

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◆ No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

- Shirley Jackson99

◆ Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

- Edgar Allan Poe99

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

- Dale Wasserman99

◆ Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

- Edgar Allan Poe99

◆ The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad.

- Salvador Dalí99

◆ When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Sanity is a cozy lie.

- Susan Sontag99

◆ I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

- Allen Ginsberg99

◆ I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

- Erich Fromm99

◆ Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

- Theodore Kaczynski99

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

- Terry Goodkind99

◆ One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

- Nikola Tesla99

◆ Where to look if you've lost your mind?

- Bernard Malamud99

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

- Hermann Hesse99