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Quotes about Sanity


The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thine was the prophet's vision, thine
The exaltation, the divine
Insanity of noble minds,
That never falters nor abates,
But labors and endures and waits,
Till all that it foresees it finds
Or what it can not find creates.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you're living in a mad world

It was the agony of knowing that it was departed, all, the insanity of former love, leaving behind this deadly godlike sobriety of self-pity

Sanity's a handicap and a liability if you are living in a mad world

There was a time when I began to doubt man's sanity how could he live without knowing for sure what dawn what death what doom awaited consciousness beyond the tomb?

Vladimir Nabokov

Apathy at the individual level translates into insanity at the mass level.

Doug las Hofstadter

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

R. Pirsig

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!

Miguel de Cervantes

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Bonnie Lin

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Augustus Saint-gaudens

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Lavant

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart—this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal. -Mary Baker Eddy.

Mary Baker Eddy

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

Steve Landesberg

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

John Dryden

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

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