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Mark Twain
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark Twain

Edgar Allan Poe
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence鈥� whether much that is glorious鈥� whether all that is profound鈥� does not spring from disease of thought鈥� from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

J.K. Rowling
“Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

George Santayana
“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

Christopher Moore
“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

Shirley Jackson
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Marcus Aurelius
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Neil Gaiman
“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, Neverwhere

C.G. Jung
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Akira Kurosawa
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
Akira Kurosawa

Jim  Butcher
“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
Jim Butcher, Changes

Richelle Mead
“Damn it," I muttered.

"What?" asked Adrian.

"I hate when you're the sane one. That's my job."

"Rose," he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, "I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what's not on the list? Sane.”
Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

Franklin D. Roosevelt
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

John Green
“Actually, the problem is that I 肠补苍鈥檛 lose my mind,鈥� I said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 inescapable.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

Ana茂s Nin
“What I cannot love, I overlook.”
Anais Nin

Jim  Butcher
“The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.”
Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

Rohinton Mistry
“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Criss Jami
“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Criss Jami
“When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Edgar Allan Poe
“Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Aldous Huxley
“That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies

Edgar Allan Poe
“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
Theodore Kaczynski

Erich Fromm
“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

Nikola Tesla
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
Nikola Tesla

Dale Wasserman
“Too much sanity may be madness 鈥� and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
Dale Wasserman, Man of La Mancha: A Musical Play

Salvador Dal铆
“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
Salvador Dali

Susan Sontag
“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
Susan Sontag

Jack London
“To be able to forget means sanity.”
Jack London, The Star Rover

Douglas Adams
“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”
Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

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