Humor Quote by G.K. Chesterton

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

— Anonymous

“No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The tragedy of man is the difference between what he can be, and what he is.”

— David Grant Urban

“There is madness in the heart of a man.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.”

— Salman Rushdie

“In an insane world a sane man must appear insane.”

— C Willaim King

“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of illusion: love, interesting work, hope for the future.”

— John Gardner

“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The sane genius transforms everything that might disturb us, "the wildest dreams," into something that is familiar and reassuring. It is his artfulness that…

— Adam Phillips Going Sane

“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.”

— Mark Lawrence