#sanity

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#aggressive #around #grew #guys #i

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#friends #hanging #i #life #line

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#between #dividing #drawn #i #illness

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii. ↗

— Gellu Naum

#escape-from-reality #heroism #insanity #psychosis #dreams

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#i #peace #same #sanity #thing

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. ↗

— George Weinberg

#coming #gays #out #sanity #self-worth

Sanity is a cozy lie. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#lie #sanity

We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for him; for her this was the basic, natural question. He wished he could answer. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#dreaming #dreams #drugs #insanity #reality

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#sanity #light

I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightly by it's little tentacle, don't let the Freudians coax it away or the pharmacists poison it out of you. Whatever it is, hold it dear, for when you lose it you go over by that much to the others. You begin to cease to be. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#fantasy