(89 quotes found)
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination”
Mark Twain
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”
“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
“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
“If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.”
Angelina Jolie
“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity”
Oscar Wilde
“Sanity is a madness put to good use.”
George Santayana
“People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time”
Norman Cousins
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.”
Henry Ward Beecher