Top 100 Quotes About Sane
#1. An individual cannot be considered entirely sane if he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.
Alfred Korzybski
#2. I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#3. For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.
Robert Musil
#4. A sane accusation can be refuted. An insane accusation, one that makes no sense on any level, cannot be refuted, cannot even be addressed, because it is insolent nonsense. There is no sober way to defend oneself from the accusation of being a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.
John C. Wright
#5. Take it from me: sane is mundane, insanity is the new black.
Cameron Jace
#6. If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.
Zoot Sims
#7. You're my addiction, Caitlin, keeping me sane at the same time as driving me crazy.
Lindsay J. Pryor
#8. Sometimes Anatole wonders just where the elusive point is, where you stop being sane.
Paul Russell
#10. We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
Majora Carter
#11. The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once
Greg Egan
#12. The Light knows how sane he still
Anonymous
#13. Oh, the naivety of humanity, and insanity of the understanding.
But if the world understood, would the stupid be considered sane?
Larul Andrews
#14. What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?
Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?
Heidi R. Kling
#15. No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise....
Kenneth L. Fisher
#16. I am just your ordinary,
average every day sane psycho,
supergoddess.
Liz Phair
#17. Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.
Martin Mayer
#18. You're crazy," she said with a laugh. And thank God for that.
"When it comes to you, I don't know how to be sane.
Olivia Cunning
#19. A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.
Graham Moore
#20. Simply using the words sane and insane is a way for the population to draw a safe line through humanity, and then place themselves squarely on the side of the healthy." Grace's
Mindy McGinnis
#21. To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.
Marty Rubin
#22. Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.
Byron Katie
#23. Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
Dan Brown
#25. If anyone had bothered to notice me, they would only see a scared fifteen-year-old girl with eyes of sable ringed by kohl liner and black hair that fell to her waist. They wouldn't see someone struggling to remain sane. Only an empty space where a real girl used to live.
Sherry Soule
#26. No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.
H.L. Mencken
#27. The country has gone sane and got back to horses.
Will Rogers
#28. Logic is illogical, madness is seeing the truth for what it is, which is sanity. therefore I am the most illogical sane person you will ever meet. ;)
Shannon Neprily
#29. That's the problem with sane people. They almost always have a license to kill those they think are insane.
Cameron Jace
#30. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla
#31. "You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
#32. Coming back to where you grew up is like doing some crazy yoga trick, putting your feet in your own mouth and somehow swallowing yourself so there's nothing left; it can't be done, and any sane person ought to be fucking glad it can't . . .
Stephen King
#33. Melanchthon concludes that "no sane person can approve this Pharisaical and pagan opinion about ex opere operato." (Ap.XXIV.13)
Jordan B Cooper
#34. Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
Edward Dahlberg
#35. I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.
Emmy Rossum
#36. Ask us not whether we are right or wrong, happy or sad, sane or mad.
Yone Noguchi
#37. We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.
Jacque Fresco
#38. And our madness-measure is always changing. Probably we are less tolerant of madness now than at any period in history. There is no place for it. Crucially, there is no time for it.
Going mad takes time. Getting sane takes time.
Jeanette Winterson
#40. Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.
Tori Amos
#41. Nothing like someone crazier than you to make you feel sane.
Mark Henwick
#42. I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn't a happy thought, so the dementors couldn't suck it out of me...but it kept me sane and knowing who I am...helped me keep my powers...
J.K. Rowling
#43. Who says I'm insane?"
"Oh you're sane alright.
You're so sane, you scare me.
You're so sane, it's insane.
Neal Shusterman
#44. To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.
Denis Johnson
#45. I'm also hurt by injustice. But don't forget that we have passed through hell ,and remained sane people inspite of everything.This is our victory.
Alija Izetbegovic
#46. Rack?" "You know, R-A-C-K," Mason spelled out. "Risk-aware, consensual kink. It's a level beyond S-S-C." "Safe, sane and consensual," Mark replied, glad he at least knew that one, and feeling foolish that he hadn't heard of RACK before, though he understood and practiced the concept behind it. "Yep.
Claire Thompson
#47. When all the normal patterns and routines of a person's life fell apart - and with such shocking suddenness - you had to find something you could hold onto, something that was both sane and predictable.
Stephen King
#48. I just think that where that kiss was heading is someplace that's a lot easier for you than it is for me. My life is very structured. Very simple. Very sane.
Ann Evans
#49. When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.
Vikram Chandra
#50. You'd be quite sane and well-adjusted if your family had happened to somebody else
Aleksandr Voinov
#51. I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.
Will Rogers
#52. But you mustn't be too sane, darlings. It really won't do in this family.
Angus Wilson
#53. Fear would never allow him anything so hopelessly silly as hope. Still, fear would keep him alive. It was the only sane emotion in an insane world.
Michael R. Fletcher
#54. Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so.
Nick Hornby
#55. It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.
Robert Hughes
#56. Children do need the guidance of their parents, and we guide them more by the example we set than by any other way. We need to be firm and sane and fair and consistent - and, above all, we need to discipline in a spirit of love.
Billy Graham
#57. A healthy sense of the ironic is the best way to remain sane in a world that often isn't; I highly recommend it.
Rick Yancey
#58. Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.
James P. Hogan
#59. Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#60. There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
Henry David Thoreau
#62. Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.
Roxanne Snopek
#63. Well what are you looking at me for? If this is a democratic process, I've been outvoted," he said in exasperation. "This is why democracy doesn't work. The crazy people always outnumber the sane people.
Joseph R. Lallo
#64. Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat
it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.
Andrew Solomon
#65. What use to the sane, after all, are the words of the mad?
Alexis Hall
#66. The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability
consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.
Bill Rodgers
#67. When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
Edgar Allan Poe
#68. Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
Joseph Heller
#69. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who ... can be divided ... into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
W. H. Auden
#70. Plenty of 'sane' people can't manage to keep it all under control. Their mental state - stress, anxiety, frustration - gets in the way of their ability to be happy.
Sanderson, Brandon (2012-09-11). Legion (Kindle Locations 549-551). Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC. Kindle Edition.
Brandon Sanderson
#72. Is she sane?' asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. 'I'll repeat our conversation, word for word, Isabella; and you point out any charm it could have had for you.
Emily Bronte
#73. All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.
Trevor Baylis
#74. If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
Christopher Moore
#75. I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
Iman
#76. From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#77. I spat out the appropriate response of bitter laughter. Heads turned to me again. I guess I wasn't looking too sane to the crumblies. [referring to the old people in the room]
Anthony McGowan
#78. The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
Eckhart Tolle
#79. In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.
Renee Fredrickson
#80. Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.
Julia Stiles
#81. I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.
Richard Dawkins
#82. My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
Julius Evola
#83. A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#84. Paradoxes only stump sane people. Nuts have irrational on our side.
Brian Spellman
#85. I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they're sane. Only sane people can thing they're crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.
Nathaniel Fick
#86. The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.
C.S. Lewis
#87. Please show tolerance with people. you see if there were no idiots in the world , How would you know you were sane?
Dave Gale
#88. If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
Richard Rohr
#89. Real, sane, mature love - the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school - is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#90. 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
#91. I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.
Marti Noxon
#92. nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom.
Yasmine Galenorn
#93. War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#94. It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.
Jenny Lawson
#95. Oh good," said the Beast dryly. "Here I was afraid that I had kidnapped a sane person by mistake." "If you are going to kidnap travelers, you will simply have to take what you can get," snapped Bryony.
T. Kingfisher
#96. Keep the imagination sane
that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#97. But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.
Lena Dunham
#98. Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
William Allen White
#99. I should have thought of this years ago.
But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
