Quotes about Sanity
Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.
— Margaret Atwood
Faith and mental stability aren't mutually exclusive.
— Elizabeth Musser
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
— George Bernard Shaw
A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.
— George Eliot
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
— GK Chesterton
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
— Alphonsus Liguori
The other person doesn't have to consciously join you in the change. 'Whoever is saner at the time,' says A Course in Miracles, 'is to invite the Holy Spirit into a situation.' It doesn't matter whether or not another person shares our willingness to let God enter. Everything you need in life already exists inside your head.
— Marianne Williamson
To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
— Wendell Berry
For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
— Mark Twain
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
— Mark Twain
And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often forget—or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.
— Mark Twain