#sanity

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#audience #crazies #dance #did #i

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#attended #cradle #death #disease #followed

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#cradle #death #followed #insanity #life

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#having #humor #hurt #just #keep

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#felt #had #i #my own #own

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#groups #individuals #insanity #nations #parties

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#any #behavior #beholder #enlightenment #eye

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#ability #definition #need #new

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#charges #going #how #i #i think

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle. ↗

— Lou Reed

#i #insanity #interested #late #lifestyle