David Nicholls Quotes

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.

Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

I'm insane, not forgetful.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

The breath of the mind is attention.

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -