Jeanne Moreau Quotes

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

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

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.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

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

He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

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

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

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

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?

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

The key to success is emotional stability.

More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.

If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.