What's the difference between sanity and madness anyway? We all play headgames with ourselves. We all have baggage. We all cope somehow. I'm not sure if I'm mad or sane. I mean, I hold my life together, I pay my bills, I raise my kids. But the world is so polarized and bizarre now that for some people, none of these these things matter if they're not wearing the right shoes or don't have the right credit score or a fancy family car. Some people think the most important things to worry about are handbags and tan lines. Meanwhile, war and crime and poverty unfold all around us, and we ignore it. In that environment, how can we even begin to talk about sanity and madness?
A.S. KingTags: madness sanity mental-health mental-illness
You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.
Kevin BrockmeierTags: sanity
It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
William FaulknerTags: insanity sanity self-awareness duality
In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: society food sanity survival farmer sustenance economist
Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: reality sanity illusion delusion hallucination fantasy-romance
At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.
Herman Melvilleso are you going to marry me or what?"
He smiled that smile that had been making me feel something like drunk these past few months, and I felt all my sensibility and reason start to beat their wings as they prepared to fly away. Again.
Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.
Robert BoswellTags: sanity
Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.
Jaeda DeWaltTags: inspirational insanity sanity creativity insane
It is a well-worn truth that cops grow callous, a cliché so tattered that it is even common on television. All cops face things every day that are so gruesome, brutal, and bizarre that no normal human being could deal with them on a daily basis and stay sane. And so they learn not to feel, to grow and maintain a poker-faced whimsy toward all the surprising things their fellow humans find to do to each other. All cops practice not-feeling, and it may be that Miami cops are better at it than others, since they have so many opportunities to learn.
Jeff LindsayTags: sanity cops callousness
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