Top 100 Be Sane Quotes

#1. To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, and blacker than a tax collector's heart. A sane man would have been curled up in front of a fire with a cup of mulled wine and a good boo-, ah, a willing wench.

Hilari Bell

#2. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Hermann Hesse

#3. It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.

Lykke Li

#4. That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.

Joseph Heller

#5. The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

Mark Twain

#7. The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

Paul Di Filippo

#9. We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

John Wyndham

#10. In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.

Walter Dean Myers

#11. If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds
can actually be out of their minds while caught in that throe
why shouldn't writers be able to go bonkers and still stay sane?

Stephen King

#12. Knew myself to be quite sane. I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. IF YOU'RE CRAZY, I DON'T WANT TO BE SANE.
-Colin

K. Lars

#14. Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.

Nellie Bly

#16. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

Munia Khan

#17. But how sane can the mind really be if it doesn't even know its own depth?

A.R.H

#18. I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.
- Jake to Lydia

Lisa Kleypas

#19. I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

Allen Ginsberg

#20. Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves
to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil.

James L. Sutter

#21. For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn.

Germaine Greer

#23. Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

Robert Boswell

#24. Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary

George Orwell

#25. While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

John Podhoretz

#26. A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

Henri Poincare

#27. People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#28. Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way forward is to grow food for humans rather than to feed it to farmed animals..

Jeremy Rifkin

#29. If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

Charles Fort

#30. Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Dylan Thomas

#31. People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

G.K. Chesterton

#32. The lunatic who thinks he is a crowned head may be, in a sense, happy, but his happiness is not of a kind that any sane person would envy.

Bertrand Russell

#33. It's a poor thing to be sane!

Donald Woods Winnicott

#34. Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

Lauren Graham

#35. I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#36. The deranged tended to live in segregated parts of town where their delusions would not be tainted and limited by the proximity of the solid beliefs of the pathetic sane.

Michael R. Fletcher

#37. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Saurabh Sharma

#38. This must be insanity. (But I'm as sane as anyone.)

Patrick Ness

#39. The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.
And only the phoenix lives forever.

Fredric Brown

#40. I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

Jay-Z

#41. Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course it can't.

Leigh Hershkovich

#42. No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.

Seneca.

#43. I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

Bessie Head

#44. He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

Ovid

#45. First of all, I might be married, but hell if a sane woman would turn her head away from the sight of that.

K. Bromberg

#46. The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.

Frances Xavier Cabrini

#47. I'll be the in to your sane.

Gary Numan

#48. Once again, the only sensible approach is tentatively to reject the dragon hypothesis, to be open to future physical data, and to wonder what the cause might be that so many apparently sane and sober people share the same strange delusion.

Jerry A. Coyne

#49. To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#50. With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Henry David Thoreau

#51. In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

Germaine Greer

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

Clive Barker

#53. For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush ...
Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.

Toni Cade Bambara

#54. In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.

Aldous Huxley

#55. Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical subtleties used in conversation by those whose main aim in life was the achievement and maintenance of the shifgrethor relationship on a high level.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#56. I couldn't see him putting up with the restraints and discipline of being a Bottom - he wouldn't have been able to remember half the rules - and no sane person would allow Rob to be his Top.

Josh Lanyon

#57. Insanity," said Hatta, still mesmerized by his royal purple hair. "That always seemed the strangest word because it actually means out of sanity. Shouldn't someone who's in sanity be very sane? In means out. Curious."
"And they think we're the mad ones," laughed the smiling Cheshire Cat.

Daniel Coleman

#58. Clarissa, sane Clarissa-exultant, ordinary Clarissa- will go on, loving London, loving her life of ordinary pleasure, and someone else, a deranged poet, a visionary, will be the one to die.

Michael Cunningham

#59. Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.

Vironika Tugaleva

#60. Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.

Peter Clines

#61. He sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.

G.K. Chesterton

#62. The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works.

Erica Goros

#63. No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

#64. I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

John Cleese

#65. Believing in something greater than ourselves isn't crazy. It's proof we're sane. Look how vast the galaxy is. Don't you have to admit we can't be the greatest power within it?

Claudia Gray

#66. Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility
one of the crushing problems of our time.

Jules Feiffer

#67. What must it be like for a suicide coming down from a high ledge? I'm sure it must be a very sane feeling. That's probably why they scream all the way down.

Stephen King

#68. What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing ... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

Jean Dujardin

#69. I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

Kendall Hailey

#70. People frequently claim to be going insane. But I've never heard somebody say they were going sane. Perhaps its because sanity isn't a desirable destination.

Kyra Davis

#71. In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#72. I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.

Nando Parrado

#73. We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

John Updike

#74. I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

Robin Wright

#75. Somebody has to be sane during regular business hours, and it's not going to be me, missy.

Darynda Jones

#76. On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude.

Thomas Love Peacock

#77. Yeah, well, right now? Right now, I think being crazy may be the only thing that's keeping me sane.

Mira Grant

#78. I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

Edgar Allan Poe

#79. Love is the reason to remain sane all life and yet it is an excuse to be insane in all the moments that make up a life.

Novoneel Chakraborty

#80. That's what he always used to say to me. Don't expect me to be sane, Anna. Not with you.

Paula Hawkins

#81. We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Robert Bloch

#82. There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Denis Diderot

#83. I am mad. The thought calms me. I don't have to try to be sane anymore. It's over. I sleep

Marya Hornbacher

#84. Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions.

H.P. Lovecraft

#85. It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

G.K. Chesterton

#86. And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

Meg Cabot

#87. I remain still and stare blankly at the profile of my handsome, troubled man and wonder whether I could be classed as troubled too, now. My sanity is certainly questionable, but I'm sane enough to admit that. I was a normal, sound-minded girl. I definitely don't qualify for that any more.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#88. When you find yourself surrounded by sane people excited about your idea and lending support, you realize, perhaps, you are not as crazy as you think you are

Paresh Shah

#89. The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

Kingsley Amis

#90. When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It's the only way to stay sane in insanity.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#91. Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#92. A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it ...

Andrew Solomon

#93. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't,
but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.

Joseph Heller

#94. The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.

Kelli Jae Baeli

#95. That level of irony was such that it should not exist in a sane universe, but then he had never once believed the universe to be sane.

Evan Currie

#96. If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different ... I'd rather be completely fucking mental.

Angelina Jolie

#97. To be sane, we must recognise our beliefs as fictions.

James Hillman

#98. There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries.

Oscar Wilde

#99. It's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

Margaret Deland

#100. I could be a party girl, dating whoever I want and being reckless, but I like being in a relationship. When you have somebody who grounds you and keeps you sane, it helps.

Eva Longoria

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