Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.
THOMAS SZAS In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
J. G. BALLARD In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
J. G. BALLARD We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
HORACE MANN We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital
HORACE MANN Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The insane create worlds, the sane live in them... the sane create cages,
the insane live in them.
KAPPA MAKI When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
CRISS JAMI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
DAN BROWN Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
PHILIP K. DICK Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.
SHANNON L. ALDER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Wakin...
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DAVID GILMOUR No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is only the intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeli...
BERTRAND RUSSELL When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
HERMANN HESSE Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane un...
SHERRILYN KENYON the words of a madman are only chaos to the sane.
-JOEL In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
AKIRA KUROSAWA In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
AKIRO KUROSAWA In a mad world only the mad are sane.
AKIRA KUROSAWA A sane person will look like insane for an insane person!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN None of us are sane; none of us know sanity. We only have the audacity, to think that we are sane. R...
ENRIQUE VEGA It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to ne...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. N...
RENEE FREDRICKSON the rent is a little higher here
but so far I've been able to
pay it
and that's a mi...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible....
DAVID BRIN It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The...
DAVID BRIN In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occa...
HENRY WARD BEECHER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Ti...
EMILY DICKINSON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
MAGGIE SMITH Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to...
CORA CARMACK It's an act of madness. Someone who is mentally sane does not open fire on journalists simply trying...
MAHMOUD ABAZA I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we wou...
MARK TWAIN One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
NIKOLA TESLA The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we...
MARK TWAIN I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That...
CLAUDIA GRAY It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a b...
G.K. CHESTERTON Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
ERICH FROMM There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
SUSANNA KAYSEN Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique...
SOCRATES The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
ANTHONY STORR THE MISCONCEPTION: You are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is. THE TRUTH: ...
DAVID MCRANEY It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
G. B. BURGIN It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane ...
MARCIA ANGELL Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are...
LESLIE FIEDLER How are you still sane?"
"Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when ...
BRODI ASHTON Only in war does the madman become sane.
ANTHONY RYAN Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discer...
EMILY DICKINSON When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
BRENT M. JONES Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at leas...
MARA WILSON …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
KATE BORNSTEIN It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose liv...
OSCAR WILDE It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
MARGARET ANDERSON [Duke] wrote of his wish to support a form of education 'conducted along sane and practical lines,' ...
RICHARD BRODHEAD When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
TERRY GOODKIND I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
FRED ALLEN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN In our national parlance, what's usually meant by the word "maverick" is someone who skirts the edge...
MICHAEL PATERNITI The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they t...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk...
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short tim...
DEE REMY We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.
THE PAPER DOLL I know that Shannon (Miller) has mentioned that it's a good draw. It makes sense. We're the ones who...
PAUL FLANAGAN It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
W.G. SEBALD A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know...
MARGUERITE YOUNG Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they a...
MATT HAIG Sometimes I think you're the only thing keeping me sane.
JULIE KAGAWA Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one ...
NIKOLA TESLA If a sane dog fights a mad dog, it's the sane dog's ear that is bitten off
BURMESE PROVERB Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal s...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE The things that keep me sane are the things that drive me crazy
JODEL AREVALO I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and ...
PLATO They said she was sane, that they couldn't do anything.
JOYCE HARRIS the difference between me and everyone else is....i know im crazi
NICK HILL So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
HERMAN MELVILLE There are only two sane people in this world,
you and me... and I am not too sure about you!
JOHN BANKSON
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HENRY MILLER The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
HENRY MILLER [...] I know how to inflame a cunt. I shoot hot bolts into you, Tania. I make your ovaries incandesc...
HENRY MILLER Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we wo...
HENRY MILLER Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines ...
HENRY MILLER Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
HENRY MILLER I have found God, but he is insufficient.
HENRY MILLER If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want t...
HENRY MILLER I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am...
HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean...
HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ...
HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c...
HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...
HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n...
HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس...
HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa.
HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en...
HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...
HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way
HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...
HENRY MILLER One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli...
HENRY MILLER