Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
—Philip K. Dick
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
—Nora Ephron
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
—Heinrich Heine
There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.
—Herman Melville
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
—William Dement
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
—Philip Ó Ceallaigh
You wanted to get well.… Asked your greatest wish in life, you would have replied at once—sanity.… In the world outside, people longed desperately to be millionaires, movie actors, club presidents.… But nowhere, nowhere save the madhouse, did mental health get its share of prayers.
—Mary Jane Ward
The only reason that we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
—Pema Chödrön
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
—George Price
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Live your life as if each moment is your last. This isn't about going crazy. It's about appreciation.
—Rachel Van Dyken in Pull
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
—Pat Conroy
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
—Ed Meese
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
—Akira Kurosawa
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
—Diane Ackerman