Psychological Stability Quotes

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

Sanity is not statistical.

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.

I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

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

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have Mencheres break out the invisible straitjacket again. I haven't gone crazy. I just didn't understand until now." He still looked like he was debating having Mencheres lay the power whammy on me, so I sat down by Kira in a very deliberate manner, folding my hands in my lap. There. Didn't I look calm and sane?

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.