A Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.
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.
One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.
Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.
Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane
There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.
In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.
The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
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.
You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.
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