Motivational Quotes

Sanity

Matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Sanity

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Diane Ackerman

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

France, Anatole

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

Krishnamurti

Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Robin Williams

11.

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

Janet Long

12.

Matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!

William Shakespeare

13.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

John Russell

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

Hermann Hesse

15.

That way madness lies.

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Albert Einstein

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

Santayana, George

22.

Why, this is very midsummer madness.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

George Price

24.

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

William Shakespeare

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Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kenneth Tynan

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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Heinrich Heine

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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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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