Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
William Shakespeare
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
William Shakespeare
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali
I don't really trust a sane person.
Lyle Alzado
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Heinrich Heine
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
Akira Kurosawa
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
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
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
George Price
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
Janet Long
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams
Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?
Mark Twain
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement
If I bought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.
Phil Gramm
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
John Russell
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Oscar Wilde
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt 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
What this means is a return to sanity. There has been so much hype and so many promises made and promises broken.
David Chamberlain
His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long enough to see this rediscovery.
John Arvin
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.
Luis Miguel
The luck I've had has all been bad. I've had the Concorde crash, 9/11,foot and mouth, the Gulf war, Sars and high fuel prices. It might make you doubt my sanity, but I've enjoyed it.
Rod Eddington
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
I was starting to question my own sanity (after the first two games). You don't pull on Superman's cape - we were over our heads in those games. But the kids stayed positive and that's important.
Robert H. Jackson
I got this rather cross letter, something like, 'Your infernal noisemaking is robbing me and my family of our sanity,' ... It's not as pleasant as some people fantasize, all this wonderful music cascading next door.
Garrick Ohlsson
He basically questioned the sanity of RIM, and said it wasn't acting very rationally. His prodding of the parties worked.
Rod Thompson
A lot of speculative excess is being blown out of this market here. It was long overdue, and finally a little more sanity is prevailing here right now.
Matt Gibson
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Herman Melville
These days, knitting and crocheting clothing, accessories and home decor items is as much a sanity saver or a social outlet as they are a creative effort.
Kate Walsh
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag
This isn't about correction officers, it's about the administration of the DOC. My sanity is about to break. They're either going to kill me or I'm going to go nuts, but before that, so help me God, this court will know the whole story.
Joseph Druce
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
George Santayana
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Rose F. Kennedy
I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
Bram Stoker
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert S. McNamara
These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.
Carl Hiaasen
I managed to survive the repression and the torture, but many others found it much more difficult. I saw people who were tortured so badly they ultimately lost their sanity.
Ahmed Herzenni
It's been my sanity, ... It's so much fun.
Karen Brown
The entire CAFTA process has been conducted behind closed, with corporate interests granted almost everything they desire, while basic protections for people, be it worker rights, environmental sanity, or access to essential services have been sacrificed.
Tom Ricker
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
William Allen White
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
Robert Southey
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
Wallace Stegner
With more technologies, there are more choices. Choose wisely and well. You don't have to read every e-mail you get; you need to develop your own rules of thumb and steps to sanity.
Paul Saffo
We're trying to restore some sanity to the pricing environment in our industry.
Mark Laneve
It is appalling that the land that deifies Gandhi makes it so difficult for a man like Patwardhan, who articulates the same values that Gandhi dreamed for India, ... The sanity of his film, it just undermines the war hysteria that they've whipped up.
Mahesh Bhatt
Sanity is not statistical.
George Orwell
Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
Sir David Low
The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox 'pilgrims' and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane - not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.
David Kirk
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 Saavedra
To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living.
Mary Baker Eddy
Some people will never learn, and that is the reason for which FIFA must intervene so as to return sanity to the game and keep these people away from the stadiums.
Lilian Thuram
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
Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.
Amber Benson
Not being driven nuts by a significant other always helps one's sanity and attitude. Trust me, of this I know what I speak.
Steve Austin
But people on the edge of sanity, that might be just enough to push them over.
Eugene Halton
And just being out here it's a sanity-reviver. After spending a week, five days, in the office in a cubicle where I hardly ever get to look out.
Ellen Knapp
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