No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
Shirley JacksonTag: reality first-sentence opening-lines sanity escapism escape
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 GaimanMen 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 PoeTag: intelligence greatness insanity sanity
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan SontagTag: sanity
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 BaxterTag: writing sanity anthropomorphization consensual-reality pathetic-fallacy
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark TwainArt has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
Dorothea TanningMuch 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 —
Tag: poetry madness sanity conformity
Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.
J.K. RowlingTag: sanity
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 AtwoodTag: fear insanity sanity crying voices
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