Motivational Quotes

Sanity

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Sanity

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Kenneth Tynan

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

George Price

Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?

William Shakespeare

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Krishnamurti

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Diane Ackerman

Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.

William Shakespeare

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Ted Morgan

Why, this is very midsummer madness.

William Shakespeare

Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

William Shakespeare

10.

That way madness lies.

William Shakespeare

11.

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.

William Shakespeare

12.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow... And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?

William Shakespeare

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Santayana, George

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Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.

William Shakespeare

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Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

William Shakespeare

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How comes it, that thou art then estranged from thyself?

William Shakespeare

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

Robin Williams

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Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

Janet Long

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

France, Anatole

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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Salvador Dali

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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Bataille, Georges

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

Hermann Hesse

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We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body.

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.