sanity

Maybe he__ normal and we__e the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we__e all just afraid of what we__ say.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!

No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.

I wish you were here,_ I say, shutting my eyes and remembering the way Dad looked in my hallucination.I hear his voice again, so real that I__ worried I__ about to fall into another hallucination. Maybe that__ what I really want. If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane.

_gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might be constituted so that he liked it. And so long as his peculiarity doesn't damage or interfere with other people, there's no reason why he shouldn't be left alone.But if it is the man's fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happiness; if he attributes almost everything that happens either to the effects of eating it or not eating it; if he imagines that most of the people he meets are also sawdust-eaters, and above all, if he thinks that the salvation of the world depends entirely upon making laws to compel people to eat sawdust, whether they like it or not, then it is fair to say that his mind is unbalanced on the subject; and that, further, the practice itself, however innocent it may appear, is in that particular case perverse. Sanity consists in the proper equilibrium of ideas in general. That is the only sense in which it is true that genius is connected with insanity.

Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it.

Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

There__ no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can____nd shouldn____orce yourself to want something __ormal_ and stop wanting what you truly want. It__ a sure way to make your life miserable.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are small.

She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

Got us a full moon too coming tomorrow night. Just make things a whole lot worse. All we need.- Why is that?- What__ that, Marshal?- The full moon. You think it makes people crazy?- I know it does.- Found a wrinkle in one of the pages and used his index finger to smooth it out.- How come?- Well, you think about it__he moon affects the tide, right?- Sure.- Has some sort of magnet effect or something on water.- I__l buy that.- Human brain,- Trey said, - is over fifty percent water.- No kidding?- No kidding. You figure ol_ Mr. Moon can jerk the ocean around, think what it can do to the head.

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.