Mental Unrest Quotes

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I've always been a lunatic.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

America is a lunatic asylum.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.