“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

“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

“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

“there isn't enough of anything
as long as we live. But at intervals
a sweetness appears and, given a chance
prevails.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

“In the summer of 1930 my academic future, however, was not uppermost in my mind. I had been stricken by an acute attack of a disease which at regular intervals afflicts all mathematicians and, for that matter, all scientists: I became obsessed by a problem.”

Mark Kac (1914–1984) Polish-American mathematician