sanity

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

So we gave the afternoon some sanity after all and I wonder, Uncle Andrew, is life sane, as we tried to make it? Or is it insanity, as it was yesterday on the Gerard plantation? And why don't more people try to make it sane?Or if it is full of sanity for them, why do they try to rip that sanity to pieces and impose their form of insanity? Can you help me understand?

Just because I'm insane doesn't mean I have to act all crazy.

What slave work do you want me to do for you?_ asked Diogenes when he had been bought.__e a teacher to my children,_ answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

People who smoke would have probably been regarded as fools or insane, if only a percentage of people who smoke smoked.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I was sane once. It was horrible.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

Sanity exists only in books, while Insanity rules our lives!

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (__he Medusa_)

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.