Dan Savage Quotes

I want to keep my sanity.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

I owe it to those around me to keep sane. We all do.

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Sanity is a compromise.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!

I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.