A Quote by Wendell Berry

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

Wendell Berry

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Bad Brain Heart Mad Sane Time Worse

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Wendell Berry
American - Novelist
Born: August 5, 1934

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

Donald Barthelme

You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse ? But all may be described in verse.

Garrison Keillor

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Graham Swift

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Clive Barker

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Thomas Brooks

Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse.

Yasmine Hamdan

Mad Dog Time is the first movie I have seen that does not improve on the sight of a blank screen viewed for the same length of time. Oh, I've seen bad movies before. But they usually made me care about how bad they were. Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.

Roger Ebert

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

Saib Tabrizi

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Akira Kurosawa

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

Akira Kurosawa

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

Terry Pratchett

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane.

Craig Nicholls

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

David Markson

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Maxine Hong Kingston

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

Maureen Johnson

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