Depression Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see…

— Apuleius

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

— William Ellery Channing

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

— Henry Ward Beecher

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

— Norman O. Brown

Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

— Andrea Gibson

...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to…

— Mark Twain

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

— Richard Yates

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently,…

— William James

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

— Nellie Bly