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There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had him. If I had someone like him, it would prove that I'm stable, and then I wouldn't have to do the work to get there. I am constantly looking for ways to cede control of my worries to someone, anyone.
Emma Forrest
Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.
Alison Larkin
People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.
Paulo Coelho
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
Georges Bataille
A lunatic may be
Edgar Allan Poe, The System of D
At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.
George Orwell
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
Aldous Huxley
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin
Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
George Santayana
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Akiro Kurosawa
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Anatole France
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S Truman
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
Stephen King
If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Gustav Jung
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
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 are okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
George Bernard Shaw
He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.