Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

We create the illusions we need to go on.

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

Denial can be a pathology or a survival mechanism - and sometimes it's both.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

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

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.