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Sanity Quotes


"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."


"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."


"You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction."


"Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment."


"With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind."


"So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way."


"To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants."


"To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while."


"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."


"Sometimes I think you're the only thing keeping me sane."


"If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity."


"Your key hobbies need to be long country walks (get some fresh air in those lungs!), masturbation, and the revolution. Between those three, you should, in the long term, stay relatively sane."


"I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."


"Most really crazy people can only take reality in small doses."


"You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity."
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