Top 100 Quotes About Sane
#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. Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
David Bowie
#3. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
George Eliot
#4. The paths of Fate are many and varied,and no sane being should ever venture down the deceptively pleasant one of "if only".What happened,happened;
Christie Golden
#6. Lucky for you, since you're the most dangerous man I've ever met. A
sane woman would run away from you, not toward you.
Alyssa Day
#7. I owe it to those around me to keep sane. We all do.
Greg Wise
#8. It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson
#9. What motivates people to stay sane in all this insanity, I don't know.
Cameron Jace
#10. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#11. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
#13. Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.
Julie Warner
#14. 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
#16. That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.
Joseph Heller
#18. The irony of talking to animals and an imaginary girlfriend, who keep me sane, even though I know I look like a raving lunatic, isn't lost on me.
Elyse Draper
#19. There is none so troubled as one who thinks himself perfectly sane.
Lois Greiman
#20. With all due respect, Jacobi, that's a load of bull. It was bad, but I handled it. That's what the job is. I hardly have a scratch on me. So stop treating me like a victim. I'm fully functional and absolutely sane. This is my case and I'm on it. OK? OK?
James Patterson
#23. It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
W.G. Sebald
#24. No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
Mark Twain
#25. I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
#26. I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.
Alaina Huffman
#27. 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
#28. They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad. This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.
Lev Shestov
#29. If you were crazy you wouldn't realize how crazy it sounds," she said gently but insistently. "You're recognizing a problem and you're getting help for it, the same way any sane person with a medical problem would.
Jenny Lawson
#30. If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.
Eleanor Prescott
#31. Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
Paul Di Filippo
#32. We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.
John Wyndham
#33. I needed someone to tell me that I was sane, that I was special, and that I wasn't all that special.
Danielle LaPorte
#34. Lying was what kept him safe, alive, and relatively sane when he was little and
Jennifer Jaynes
#35. You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.
Bill Maher
#36. The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The ischium are also reforming and the illi (hip bones) likewise show diminution of bone lysis. No sane, honest physician could call this a "spontaneous remission."
Robert Willner
#38. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Much Madness is divinest Sense
To a discerning Eye
Much Sense - the starkest Madness
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail
Assent - and you are sane
Demur - you're straightway dangerous
And handled with a Chain -
Emily Dickinson
#39. Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.
Doug Benson
#40. From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
Justin Sane
#41. She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that came regularly - she felt perfectly normal, sane and in control. Then came the inevitable guilt ...
Robyn Carr
#42. And that kind of love is more important than anything right now, Lexie. It's going to keep you sane. It's always gonna remind you of who you are.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#43. Numbers are the only things you can trust in this life, Kerstin; they will keep you sane.'
Summer Lies Bleeding
Nuala Casey
#44. The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#45. There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.
Dan Greenberg
#46. I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.
Stephanie Ericsson
#47. 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
#50. I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.
Amy Sedaris
#51. 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
#52. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better.
Jonathan Tropper
#53. Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
Mark Twain
#54. The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.
Criss Jami
#56. A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings ... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
William Wordsworth
#57. To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.
Maxine Kumin
#58. The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.
Maureen Dowd
#59. 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
#60. It's not exactly surprising that staying sane is useful when trying to hit performance markers.
John Scalzi
#61. IF YOU'RE CRAZY, I DON'T WANT TO BE SANE.
-Colin
K. Lars
#62. I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane
Kevin Woods
#63. With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
Justin Sane
#64. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Criss Jami
#65. Reality recedes until you can't tell who's sane and who's
not.
Haruki Murakami
#66. Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
Socrates
#68. Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. I hate it when you're the sane one. That's my job.
Richelle Mead
#70. 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
#71. Perhaps for him there's a way to love that's sane and happy, that isn't cruel.
Rosamund Hodge
#72. 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
#73. So I did what any sane person would do. I jammed the pitchfork in the general direction of his foot and ran like hell for the house ...
Beth Fantaskey
#74. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.
Munia Khan
#75. Thus, all sane moralists admit that one may sometimes tell a lie; but no sane moralist would approve of telling a little boy to practise telling lies, in case he might one day have to tell a justifiable one.
G.K. Chesterton
#77. Believe me, it's far more difficult to keep stoking one's anger than it is to forgive and move on."
"Ah, so that's how you manage to keep sane with Uncle Imcael.
Eresse
#78. Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Homer
#79. I'm aware, as a sane person, that I'm not the best-looking guy in the world. I'm aware of it. But when I go into a party, I will walk out with your girlfriend.
Gene Simmons
#81. 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
#82. But how sane can the mind really be if it doesn't even know its own depth?
A.R.H
#83. My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
Brandon Sanderson
#84. I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.
Bill Bryson
#86. I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you.
- Jake to Lydia
Lisa Kleypas
#87. ...they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane person have for wanting to not enjoy himself any more?
Flannery O'Connor
#88. Really? You've started drinking whiskey before lunch?" Rush wasn't giving in ...
"He's fucking your sister. Hell, anyone that stupid has to drink to stay sane," Dean said in a bored tone.
Abbi Glines
#89. Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
#90. I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased the pain and life that was once filled with burden became sane again. It Became meaningful.
Art does matter, it made me, when the world changed me.
Nikki Rowe
#91. Greg made us see, after an enormous amount of effort, that if a (sane) guy really likes you, there ain't nothing that's going to get in his way. And if he's not sane, why would you want him?
Liz Tuccillo
#92. Moonlight wreaks havoc on an otherwise sane thinking mind. It makes you think that the impossible is possible, and your dreams, reality.
Jessiqua Wittman
#93. I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
Allen Ginsberg
#94. The scariest thing about drugs is the brink of it all: when you're on the verge of insanity but you think your actions sane. And you can't stop. You just can't stop.
Courtney Elizabeth Young
#95. 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
#96. You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much.
Cameron Jace
#97. I began to get a feeling ( ... ) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
William S. Burroughs
#98. There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.
Liam Hemsworth
#99. Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.
Philip K. Dick
#100. It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
Julia Cameron
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