Top 100 Quotes About Sanity
#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. A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
Rene Dubos
#3. Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
Virginia Woolf
#4. 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
#6. Whatever voice spoke him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity. a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath.
Cormac McCarthy
#7. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome.
Bill Struth
#8. Draco.
Finally. Now that the other male had realized who Dragos was, maybe he would grow some sanity and leave them the hell alone.
Thea Harrison
#9. When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
#10. 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
#12. No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.
Nas
#13. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it.
Susanna Kaysen
#15. Was I going mad? I prayed for warmth and daylight. I prayed for my sanity.
Robin Bridges
#16. Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
N. F. Simpson
#17. Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
Aristotle.
#18. Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.
Christopher Morley
#19. Sanity is found at the centre of convulsion, where madness is scorched
from the bisected soul.
Sarah Kane
#20. The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
Stephen King
#21. Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.
Renata Adler
#22. One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.
Lisa Kleypas
#23. MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!
Tanya Masse
#24. To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.
Vironika Tugaleva
#25. As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.
Melissa De La Cruz
#26. 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
#27. The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.
Chris Hedges
#28. 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
#29. Could he continue to maintain his sanity that long? He didn't know. That's why he was devouring two or three books a day - to remove himself every minute that he possibly could from the madness of this life.
Philip Roth
#30. Even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.
Stephen King
#31. To keep your sanity, when everything seems like it's going wrong, focus on the one thing that's going right!
Diamante Lavendar
#32. If that's the boundary between sanity and Crazytown, maybe they should mark it better.
Christina Garner
#33. I like plans. They create a comforting illusion of sanity and order.
Tim Pratt
#35. Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
John Russell
#36. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.
Robertson Davies
#37. When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
Anthony Burgess
#39. Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.
Rebecca McKinsey
#40. Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
Gelett Burgess
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?
Ian Rankin
#45. One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.
Ian Frazier
#46. It's an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends
Stephen Boyd
#48. In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
Jemima Khan
#49. Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.
James Thurber
#50. The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Nikki Giovanni
#51. [While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#52. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Criss Jami
#53. 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
#54. Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.
Eckhart Tolle
#55. Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.
Carly Philips
#56. Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.
Michael Brooks
#57. 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
#58. Recognizing our own craziness is, of course, the first step towards true sanity, Its the beginning our healing, peace, happiness and transcendence.
Therefore ... I'm crazy and I know it! Your turn ...
Jose N. Harris
#59. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.
Munia Khan
#60. 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
#61. But how sane can the mind really be if it doesn't even know its own depth?
A.R.H
#62. You don't sell a film by saying you won't show it. There may be secrets too horrible for a man to know and keep his own sanity but that won't go down in Hollywood, Mister.
William S. Burroughs
#63. He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.
Because he loved her.
Becky Wade
#64. Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
Jim Butcher
#65. You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.
Jenny Hubbard
#66. I'll pay for sanity, but sanity don't come cheap.
Silverchair
#67. There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
Jeffrey Kluger
#68. We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods
Carl Jung
#69. 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
#70. {T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.
Alice Walker
#71. Sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity.
Henry James
#72. I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
Allen Ginsberg
#73. Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.
Jasmina Tesanovic
#74. Annie winced. Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.
Tami Hoag
#75. It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
Louise Erdrich
#76. 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
#77. As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain ... We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.
Lincoln Hall
#79. The mountains of madness have many little plateaux of sanity.
Terry Pratchett
#80. There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.
Tom Robbins
#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. 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
#83. Sometimes being a MOM is like a good
ol' country song! You lose your sleep, you lose your hair, you lose your patience, you lose your energy, you lose your memory AND you lose your SANITY! But you DO IT all for LOVE!
Tanya Masse
#84. A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun - the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.
Amy Leach
#85. And you, Prince Elric?" She attracted the albino's wandering attention. "Do you know his story?"
Elric shook his head.
"I only know," he said, "that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!
Michael Moorcock
#86. Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket.
C.D. Reiss
#87. Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.
Criss Jami
#88. For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
Luke Evans
#89. 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
#90. There is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!
Agatha Christie
#91. Many internal story lines are not rooted in our basic sanity or wisdom, but rather in our confusion.
Lodro Rinzler
#92. I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell over the edge.' Karen said. 'I jumped,' Walter added, 'And I can't seem to climb back up.
Bryan Davis
#93. His mouth stole her breath. His touch stole her heart. And his cock stole her sanity.
Laura Kaye
#94. Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.
Robert Boswell
#96. 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
#97. An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.
Ingrid
#98. The reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
Anne Lamott
#99. Sometimes for your own sanity you just have to agree with idiocy.
Chris Colfer
#100. Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to wreck marriage, children and certainly one's health and sanity in pursuit of this.
Stephen Spender
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