“I am insane, with small intervals of horrible sanity.”

“Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.”

Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

“To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

Lois Wyse (1926–2007) American advertising executive

“That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Only, as long as we‘re going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.”

S. S. Van Dine book The Bishop Murder Case

“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)