“Worse than madness. Sanity.”

“Collective madness is called sanity..”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too”

Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

“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

“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours.”

Rafael Sabatini book Scaramouche

“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

“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

“They say, O my God, that I am mad because I see no fault in Thee; but if I am indeed mad with Thy love, I do not wish to recover my sanity.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet