C. S. Lewis Quotes

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita

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.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

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

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

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

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

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

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

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?

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

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.

I have an investment in not being crazy. I have a real investment in seeing things straight. This runs counter to that investment, so it required giving up an idea of myself, the idea being that I had control.

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.

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

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

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

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.