Sanity Quotes

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Ian Fleming

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha

Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.

Bias

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

George Santayana

Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity.

Herman Melville

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

John Russell

You want to raise your child in such a way that you don? t have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Child Dianetics

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

Do not speak quickly it is a sign of insanity.

Bias

Insanity in individuals is something rare - But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.

Marabeth Madsen

To disagree with three - Fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Oscar Wilde

All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.

The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)

Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Strange

It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.

Andy & Larry Wachowski, Merovingian - The Matrix Revolutions

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Cesare Lombroso

Insanity - - A perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Lang

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790

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

Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Nathaniel Emmons

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

George Bernard Shaw

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

R. D. Laing

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

Sam Levenson

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing