Top 100 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. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!
Larry Niven
#12. 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
#13. I often question my sanity. Occasionally, it replies.
Darynda Jones
#14. 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
#15. Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!
Jill Hennessy
#16. What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
Bill Vaughan
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity.
Joe Inman
#20. 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
#21. They worry about my sanity i join with them on that
Cecelia Ahern
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. If there was one certain victim in all this, it was my sanity. My
Skye Warren
#25. When it comes to ye, lass, I doubt even my sanity
Julia London
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. My insanity is my sanity. I am both, but I am one. If any of this makes sense.
Cameron Jace
#33. It's disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?
John Moffitt
#34. '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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. I was treading the thin line of his patience while falling off the thin line of my sanity
C.J. Roberts
#38. My ability to get shocked has eloped with my sanity and run away to Africa.
S.M. Reine
#39. You don't even know what your mere presence does to me. You're my sanity.
Linda Kage
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#45. I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. ...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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I wonder if the last shreds of my sanity would've vanished. I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread.
Marie Lu
#51. We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.
Hank Stuever
#53. Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.
Sarah Palin
#54. Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn't everybody?" She snapped her fingers. "The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I've decided I have to shoot you after all. It's the only way to preserve my sanity.
Christine Feehan
#55. I know I'm acting crazy but I'm in love with this girl. Major love. And I have no idea what to do about it, so it's messing with my sanity.
Anne Eliot
#56. For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.
Jonathan Keltz
#57. You can't protect my sanity by destroying yours.
Nalini Singh
#58. I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
Stephen King
#59. I fear, in my dark hours, that it hungers for me and that it is only a matter of time before it eats its full of my sanity.
Caitlin Kittredge
#60. So I watch my sadness, gleaming in all of its soft pastel glory. And I listen to the arguments against my sanity.
Brandi L. Bates
#61. In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
Billy Corgan
#62. Do you have any idea what your sacrifice was?" he asked Chase.
"Yeah, my sanity," he mumbled under his breath.
I kicked him.
J.L. Weil
#63. I don't want success if it comes at the expense of my soul and I don't need love at the expense of my sanity.
Derrick Jaxn
#64. Our ability to travel is a privilege. But it is also a choice. Money is time. Where do we spend out time? Wilderness is not my leisure or my recreation. It is my sanity.
Terry Tempest Williams
#65. If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity.
Sylvia Day
#66. I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.
Luis Miguel
#67. Until suddenly one day I felt beautiful and holy for having had the courage to hold on to my sanity after all I'd seen and been through, body and soul, in too loud a solitude...
Bohumil Hrabal
#68. I'm the leader of this herd of cats," she responded. "I doubt my sanity every day.
Mercedes Lackey
#69. For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.
Sebastian Barry
#70. I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
Kate Winslet
#71. Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
Tamara Taylor
#72. When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.
James A. Michener
#74. As your presence here, means the absence of my sanity.
Ika Natassa
#75. Some would have doubted their sanity at this point, but by now the part of my mind that issued doubts about my sanity had melted from overuse.
David Wong
#76. In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
Jemima Khan
#77. 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
#78. Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.
Carly Philips
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. What have I got to lose? Oh, yes, that's right, my fucking sanity.
Anna Bloom
#85. 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
#86. I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.
Christopher Page
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.
Holly Schindler
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,
Rafael Sabatini
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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