My Sanity Quotes

#1. I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.

Lewis Black

#2. I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

Blythe Danner

#3. Was I going mad? I prayed for warmth and daylight. I prayed for my sanity.

Robin Bridges

#4. I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.

Marisha Pessl

#5. God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.

Josie Loren

#6. In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

Jemima Khan

#7. So are you going to marry me or what?
He smiled that smile that had been making me feel something like drunk these past few months, and I felt all my sensibility and reason start to beat their wings as they prepared to fly away. Again.

Dorothy Koomson

#8. Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

Carly Philips

#9. 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

#10. Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Will.i.am

#11. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen.

Summer Phoenix

#12. He has a light, fumbling brutality, which several times makes me think that this time it'll cost me my sanity. In our dawning, mutual intimacy, I induce him to open the little slit in the head of his penis so I can put my clitoris inside and fuck him.

Peter Hoeg

#13. What slave work do you want me to do for you?" asked Diogenes when he had been bought.

"Be a teacher to my children," answered Xeniades with the insanity that matched the wisdom of Diogenes.

Tomichan Matheikal

#14. My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

James Earl Jones

#15. Thoughts of Narian, the strong, brave, tender young man with whom I had fallen in love, juxtaposed against the dark entity I envisioned taking over my homeland, would have shredded my sanity.

Cayla Kluver

#16. Why don't you make a contibution to my sanity, and do the one thing you never seem to be able to do ... SHUT UP!!!

Triple H

#17. I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!

Larry Niven

#18. I will not allow myself to entertain that though. Yeah, right. I'm not only entertaining that though, I'm taking it out to dinner and a movie. The goal is to focus on the now and to figure out how to reclaim your past. Or the parallel. Or my sanity.
Too much thinking never solved anything.

Laurie Viera Rigler

#19. If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark. And that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.

Michael Cunningham

#20. I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

Billy Corgan

#21. What have I got to lose? Oh, yes, that's right, my fucking sanity.

Anna Bloom

#22. I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane.

Chris Kyle

#23. I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Christopher Page

#24. I often question my sanity. Occasionally, it replies.

Darynda Jones

#25. I was in a delirium of destruction, as if the body were an insult to the philosophy of my life, and only in destroying it could I reclaim my sanity.

Stephen Hunter

#26. Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

Jill Hennessy

#27. I am happy for the first in my life, I can report that I am standing on an incline instead of an edge.

Erica Goros

#28. Sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Corra May Harris

#29. Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Martha Gellhorn

#30. Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.

Holly Schindler

#31. What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

Bill Vaughan

#32. Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.

Matthew Hussey

#33. I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.

Kiri Te Kanawa

#34. Honestly...this is why I write.
I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.
I write for my sanity.

Debora Dennis

#35. Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both in the asylum and out becomes much easier ...

Emilie Autumn

#36. I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity.

Joe Inman

#37. I do want to believe in love. I want all of its trappings, and if it costs me my sanity and a very good divorce lawyer, so be it.

Addison Moore

#38. They worry about my sanity i join with them on that

Cecelia Ahern

#39. My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

Kirby Wright

#40. With paranoia on my heels
Will you love me still
When we awake and you see that
The sanity has gone from my eyes?

Colleen Hoover

#41. But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,

Rafael Sabatini

#42. I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.

Dean Koontz

#43. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind," she said with a hint
of sadness.
"You lost your mind a long time ago," he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. "That's a compliment for anyone who knows the freedom and clarity of losing their mind," he reaffirmed her.

Daniel J. Rice

#44. If there was one certain victim in all this, it was my sanity. My

Skye Warren

#45. A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

Martin Donovan

#46. The idea that my brains could be untangled, straightened out, and thus refashioned into a state of peace and sanity was a comforting fantasy.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#47. When it comes to ye, lass, I doubt even my sanity

Julia London

#48. One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.

Dave Chambers

#49. I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

Willem Dafoe

#50. My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#51. Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#52. 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

#53. As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty,
See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.

Walt Whitman

#54. As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

Mark McKinnon

#55. If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.

Aaron Ruell

#56. I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

Soko

#57. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk ... Much ... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.

Summer Phoenix

#58. I finally realized that I had to embrace the madness, let it transform me instead of letting it define me.

....

"You, my ferocious girl, are embracing the madness. Lean into it, won't ya?

R.L. Haas

#59. destroy me. love me. warp my image in photoshop with filter presets


push me off the brink of sanity. edit my sister sister fan fiction without my permish

Heiko Julien

#60. Damn it," I muttered.
"What?" asked Adrian.
"I hate when you're the sane one. That's my job."
"Rose," he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, "I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what's not on the list? Sane.

Richelle Mead

#61. I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

Bel Kaufman

#62. From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Dean Koontz

#63. I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.

Bret Easton Ellis

#64. My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.

Chloe Neill

#65. I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

Salman Rushdie

#66. My parents and their world represented a return to sanity and predictability, something I was longing for after all this madness.

Ransom Riggs

#67. 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

#68. He doesn't let me argue further as he returns to his room. I pray for my sanity that he clothes himself, because the last thing I need is the image of Blake's naked torso dripping in sweat.

Alex Rosa

#69. All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Herman Melville

#70. My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

Elizabeth Gilbert

#71. My insanity is my sanity. I am both, but I am one. If any of this makes sense.

Cameron Jace

#72. It's disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?

John Moffitt

#73. 'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.

Naturi Naughton

#74. One way or the other, come back to me, in a month, or a year, when you're old, a haunt in my dreams, an invasion of my sanity, make a way to come back.

Lila Felix

#75. Ti amo. Esisti solo tu per me." I love you. You're the only one for me. "You're my pleasure, my sanity, my calmness, my home. My positive counterpart in every negative characteristic I own.

Soraya Naomi

#76. I was treading the thin line of his patience while falling off the thin line of my sanity

C.J. Roberts

#77. My ability to get shocked has eloped with my sanity and run away to Africa.

S.M. Reine

#78. You don't even know what your mere presence does to me. You're my sanity.

Linda Kage

#79. When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

David Sheff

#80. Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#81. At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity.

Candace Bushnell

#82. Before that night, I'd had no idea my father was so well suited for wreaking havoc or equipped to make that lightning-quick transformation from sanity to lunacy that is indispensable in enacting the unbridled urge to destroy.

Philip Roth

#83. My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

Emma Forrest

#84. And he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

Hunter S. Thompson

#85. I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

#86. You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

Peter Schjeldahl

#87. But my foster mother never explained to me that there can be a deep loneliness in modern sanity too. That madness can be its own form of solace.

Diana Abu-Jaber

#88. I can't get his bones
to go down the fucking drain.
I try to stuff the tiny holes,
too tiny for this pain.
I can't get his bones
to break any way for my gain.
Break them back a little too far,
never too far for the sake of sane.

Casey Renee Kiser

#89. His existence is a threat to my sanity.

Tessa Bailey

#90. I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

Ruth Glick

#91. I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

Kurt Vonnegut

#92. ...I'm hanging onto my sanity by a thread. I'll have you up against this tree and be inside you in about one second.

Zoe Forward

#93. You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

Ashly Lorenzana

#94. Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#95. I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Julie Andrews

#96. I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.

Frances Hardinge

#97. Thank you for inviting me into this good thing of yours. It is as extraordinary as you are. But any new yes I give means a no to my family and sanity. Please accept my sincere regrets and count on my prayers,

Jen Hatmaker

#98. My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#99. Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity's sake?
Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. "I do what I can." Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. "You are a brave man.

Gail Carriger

#100. It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Roy Blount Jr.