Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”

— Miguel de Cervantes

“No, thanks. I'm busy being an island of sanity in a sea of utter madness.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought

— Erich Fromm

“Success requires a bit of sanity and a lot of madness. I’m all in on the madness.”

— Marion Bekoe

“Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am sane. Sanity…

— Margaret Atwood

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,

— Rafael Sabatini

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male…

— Adrienne Rich

When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an…

— Ana Castillo

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear…

— Bertrand Russell

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I…

— Henry David Thoreau

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

— George Orwell

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off…

— Augustus William Hare

“To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.”

— Denis Johnson