Top 100 Quotes About Sanity
#1. August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Henry Rollins
#2. 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
#3. Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from
John C. Wright
#4. I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
Gloria Naylor
#5. Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.
Nora Roberts
#7. When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
John Le Carre
#8. I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
Mary Harris Jones
#9. In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
Billy Corgan
#10. To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#11. Nothing natural could cause this kind of fear. It goes beyond a fear of physical harm and into the realm of mental and spiritual. Like the fear of losing your sanity, of losing your soul.
Susan Ee
#12. The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.
Michael D. Barnes
#13. Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.
Jojo Moyes
#14. Sometimes people just can't take how real the world can be. Even if they're your friend they'll drop away from you like petals from a dying flower to keep their own sanity.
Jason E. Hodges
#15. Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.
Pam Houston
#16. If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity.
Bryant McGill
#17. At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
Winston Churchill
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No
Connie Willis
#22. Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there is no vision the people perish. But it is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
Dorothea Tanning
#25. To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
Eckhart Tolle
#26. If most people owned up to their own insanity maybe the rest of the world would be diagnosed with sanity and we would lock them up for not fitting into our society.
Thatcher C. Nalley
#27. Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity.
Julian Barnes
#28. Rahul's great idea, he said that having either darkness or too much white made someone's sanity decay and made them easier to manipulate. In the dark, though, they felt they could hide, and in Rahul's words ... 'They can hide, but they can't run' he used that like a mantra.
Mercy Cortez
#29. But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
Philip O Ceallaigh
#30. He preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.
D.H. Lawrence
#31. We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?
G.K. Chesterton
#32. Few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,"15 Lerner concluded that "for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success.
Leonard Mlodinow
#33. The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
Julie Powell
#34. There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness ...
Neil Gaiman
#35. That's not very Team Reality of you."
His smile matched mine. "Screw Team Reality - I'm leaving to join Team Sanity.
Alexandra Bracken
#36. [She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore.
Virginia Woolf
#37. Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/
Daniel Goleman
#38. If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. And this, without prejudice to his greatly improved understanding; for, if his elation was the height of his madness, his despondency is but the extreme of his sanity.
Herman Melville
#39. Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their children, their pets, their environments, well-being in general.
Surya Das
#40. Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one's sanity.
J.D. Salinger
#41. The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
Diane Ackerman
#42. I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
Rachel McAdams
#43. The madness was gone, but now I knew the torment of sanity. My
Rhiannon Frater
#44. 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
#45. You can't protect my sanity by destroying yours.
Nalini Singh
#46. This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.
Suzanne Collins
#47. They say crazy people rarely question their own sanity." "Who's they?" "The crazy people,
Mia Sheridan
#48. Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?
Tim Horvath
#50. 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
#51. Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#52. This is how it goes when Homeland Security's been canceled due to lack of sanity.
Stephen King
#53. The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.
John Astin
#54. If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
Edith Wharton
#55. The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
Terence McKenna
#56. We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?
Francesca Lia Block
#57. Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
Brandon Mull
#58. To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
Frank Herbert
#59. To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.
Denis Johnson
#60. One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.
D.H. Lawrence
#61. Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments from an oval platter to a plate, item by item. It reaffirms my faith in the sanity of superfluous civilization.
Adam Gopnik
#62. 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
#63. And she couldn't lose the one thing holding her sanity together, even if he also drove her crazy
Cindi Madsen
#64. 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
#65. Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Larry Wall
#66. 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
#68. It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.
P.D. James
#69. 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
#70. Ricky tasted something he hadn't experienced since childhood: the panic of losing the hand of a guardian. In this case the lost parent was his sanity. Somewhere
Clive Barker
#71. The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.
Joseph Altuzarra
#72. Where's your sense of adventure?"
"Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?
Rachel Caine
#73. Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.
Joy Browne
#74. If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity?
Glendon Swarthout
#75. And George saw the clown's face change. What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke. "They
Stephen King
#76. Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.
Michael Shurtleff
#77. My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won't be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them.
Thomm Quackenbush
#78. To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#79. Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that.
Cathy Lamb
#80. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
Norman Cousins
#81. Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left - sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.
G.K. Chesterton
#82. Escapism preserves our sanity when the ever-increasing complexity and pace of modern life becomes too much.
Fennel Hudson
#83. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
Bill W.
#84. If you're going to question your sanity whenever someone tells you you're insane, you'll spend your life in misery.
Cameron Jace
#85. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown
#86. In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.
Iain Pears
#87. Another writer argued in an 1895 issue of the Cosmopolitan that by riding a bicycle, a woman would "become mistress of herself," transformed into a "rational, useful being restored to health and sanity.
Frances E. Willard
#88. Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.
Sarah Palin
#89. Try not to assess your sanity through others. Those who think you should be institutionalized are overreacting and those who think you're stable just aren't paying attention.
Alex Bosworth
#90. Sometimes doing what's necessary seems crazy but it's the highest form of sanity.
Shane Kuhn
#92. Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
Barbara Walters
#93. 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
#95. I wonder if the last shreds of my sanity would've vanished. I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread.
Marie Lu
#96. Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
George Orwell
#97. One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.
Robert Poe
#99. The Environment will give many signals, God will give specific signals, The Source will give organized signals, And souls will give social signals. Sanity knows the truth of signals.
Ronnie Lee
#100. Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.
Philip Larkin
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