No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Shirley Jackson

Tag: reality first-sentence opening-lines sanity escapism escape



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I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

Neil Gaiman

Tag: insanity sanity



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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Edgar Allan Poe

Tag: intelligence greatness insanity sanity



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Sanity is a cozy lie.

Susan Sontag

Tag: sanity



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The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

Charles Baxter

Tag: writing sanity anthropomorphization consensual-reality pathetic-fallacy



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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

Tag: happiness sanity



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Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Dorothea Tanning

Tag: art purpose sanity



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Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discerning Eye —
Much Sense — the starkest Madness —
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail —
Assent — and you are sane —
Demur — you're straightway dangerous —
And handled with a Chain —

Emily Dickinson

Tag: poetry madness sanity conformity



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Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

J.K. Rowling

Tag: sanity



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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Margaret Atwood

Tag: fear insanity sanity crying voices



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