Keeping Sane Quotes

#1. It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Diana Wynne Jones

#2. 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

#3. Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside.

Colson Whitehead

#5. Sometimes I think you're the only thing keeping me sane.

Julie Kagawa

#6. I've taken more satisfying dumps than the blowjobs those fuckups got.

Jen Frederick

#7. If.
'If' always propelled my thoughts back to the present, because 'if' depended so much on keeping my wits about me. I couldn't properly sense things if I was distracted. 'If' demanded my full presence and participation in 'now.
'If', as much as it scared me, also kept me sane.

Ransom Riggs

#8. The biggest problems are the damn national sectors of these developing countries. These countries think that they have the right to develop their resources as they see fit. They want to become powers.

Thomas Lovejoy

#9. The dogs were partly responsible for keeping her sane. The relationship she had with them was pure joy. No ulterior motives, no spite, just love and care and kindness, exactly the emotions she wanted to cultivate.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#10. Forever, I echo, and for the first time, I know that forever is a promise I can keep. I will love her forever, until the world crumbles and this memory is the only thing keeping me sane.

Stacey Jay

#11. To smell, though well, is to stink.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

Tim Duncan

#13. I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.

Evan Longoria

#14. It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

Jean De La Bruyere

#15. These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

Matthew Henry

#17. When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

Kate Bush

#18. You're my addiction, Caitlin, keeping me sane at the same time as driving me crazy.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#19. Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.'

Jessica Scorpio

#20. It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.

Anthony Eden

#21. Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

Alice Hoffman

#22. What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Nina Simone

#23. He was so close she could almost hear the movement of his thoughts, the role of the tide; she had slipped inside his skin.

Tess Callahan

#24. Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

Frank Loesser

#25. I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?

Keira Knightley

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

Mira Grant

#27. I think today is a day for the heart. What do you think?

A.D. Posey

#28. The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

John Fowles

#29. The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache.

Alex Flinn