Top 100 Sanity's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. To keep your sanity, when everything seems like it's going wrong, focus on the one thing that's going right!
Diamante Lavendar
#5. If that's the boundary between sanity and Crazytown, maybe they should mark it better.
Christina Garner
#6. It's an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends
Stephen Boyd
#7. Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.
Carly Philips
#8. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.
Munia Khan
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Annie winced. Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.
Tami Hoag
#14. It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
Louise Erdrich
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life ... your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew.
Les Brown
#20. Imagine waking from a twenty-five-year sleep, and the first faces you saw were Sil and Lord Weirdo. Aunty Terpy's sanity would run gibbering back to whatever cracked little corner of her skull it had been occupying all these years.
Vic James
#21. She'd been questioning Jenni's sanity for a while now, but then again, they were all slightly insane now, weren't they?
Rhiannon Frater
#22. What have I got to lose? Oh, yes, that's right, my fucking sanity.
Anna Bloom
#23. Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
Georges Bataille
#24. Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.
Ken Kesey
#25. 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
#26. We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on.
Mark Lawrence
#27. Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must remain private for the preservation of one's sanity is almost frivolous.
Aysha Taryam
#28. Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!
Jill Hennessy
#29. Mogadishu was like the postapocalyptic world of Mel Gibson's Mad Max movies, a world ruled by roving gangs of armed thugs. They were here to rout the worst of the warlords and restore sanity and civilization.
Mark Bowden
#30. And as much as I'm telling her to stay here, I still want her to choose to come with me. To say fuck sanity and healing and closure. To say that I am the only thing she needs to be well and whole and alive. But we both know that's not true.
Katja Millay
#32. 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
#33. That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time.
Poppy Adams
#34. Love isn't crazy. Love isn't a degree of insanity. Love is sanity at its purest. It forces your soul to make a rational choice - a choice to make another person's happiness your priority, to allow them access to your heart and soul.
Lila Felix
#35. Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.
Terry Pratchett
#36. Insanity," said Hatta, still mesmerized by his royal purple hair. "That always seemed the strangest word because it actually means out of sanity. Shouldn't someone who's in sanity be very sane? In means out. Curious."
"And they think we're the mad ones," laughed the smiling Cheshire Cat.
Daniel Coleman
#37. I think that the most important reason to come out is your own sanity; that's above everything else. I think that applies whether you're a public figure or not. The closet is a terrible place to be for the person who's in it.
Christopher Rice
#38. Nobody sane loves working in an office, It's against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.
Peter Clines
#39. The heightened sanity of science and the sheer lunacy of magic. It's in the area where they overlap that we both are able to find... ecstasy!
Matt Kindt
#40. If you haven't lost your mind yet, that's because you haven't seen very much.
Yasmina Khadra
#41. People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)
Nancy Werlin
#42. That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
Marguerite Duras
#43. I think that gratitude for life, whatever the cause, indicates that one has managed to hold on to the core of one's sanity.
Stephen King
#44. Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.
Paul Tonko
#45. That's what a shrink is for; friends and neighbors; their job is to fuck the mentally disturbed and make them pregnant with sanity.
Stephen King
#46. I don't know why I'm second-guessing Crevan's sanity - I'm sitting here talking to a hedgehog mime.
T. Kingfisher
#47. The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves ... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.
L. Ron Hubbard
#48. The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it's important to remember that folks of color know their own realities.
Tim Wise
#49. Damn it," I muttered.
"What?" asked Adrian.
"I hate when you're the sane one. That's my job."
"Rose," he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, "I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what's not on the list? Sane.
Richelle Mead
#50. I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler
#51. Well, it's a good thing we're together. It sounds like I have to make sure you don't jump off a cliff. Or that if you do, I have to be down there to catch you, and give you back your sanity.
Freesia Lockheart
#52. 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Michael Sheen
#53. Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.
Sudhir Kakar
#54. 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
#55. It's maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.
David Lynch
#56. So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.
Julia Cameron
#57. It's disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?
John Moffitt
#58. You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.
David Hewson
#59. The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#60. If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
Chogyam Trungpa
#62. You aren't crazy,' he says. 'What?' 'I've known you all your life, and you've always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you.' Those may be the best words he's ever said to me.
Lauren DeStefano
#63. There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.
Terence McKenna
#64. It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.
Nelson DeMille
#65. My ability to get shocked has eloped with my sanity and run away to Africa.
S.M. Reine
#66. MOST OF US make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results, and we believe insanity is a problem.
S. Nassir Ghaemi
#67. There are certain things money can't buy. Chief among these are manners, class, honor and integrity. Oh, and sanity. Let's not forget that one . . .
Max Hawthorne
#68. Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.
Michael R. Fletcher
#69. There's no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can't - and shouldn't - force yourself to want something 'normal' and stop wanting what you truly want. It's a sure way to make your life miserable.
Alessandra Hazard
#70. Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.
Terry Pratchett
#71. It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
Lin Yutang
#72. I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Norman Mailer
#73. It's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
Margaret Deland
#74. It's just that we'd like to think that craziness and sanity are on opposite ends of an ocean, but really they're more like neighboring islands.
Gayle Forman
#75. And he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
Hunter S. Thompson
#76. Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
S. S. Van Dine
#77. One person's craziness is another person's reality.
Tim Burton
#78. Miss Rogers waved a hand. "But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all!"
"Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels?"
"These are civilized rebels, young man. They have movie deals!"
"That's no guarantee of sanity!
Scott Westerfeld
#79. To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.
John F. Nash
#80. Paige, you will have two tasks tonight,' he said, turning to face me. 'Both will test the limits of your sanity. Will you believe me if I tell you that they will help you?'
'Not likely,' I said 'but let's get on with it.
Samantha Shannon
#83. And isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, ooh ooh ooh, the sky's the limit!
Ben Edlund
#85. River Song: Right then. I have questions, but number one is this - what in the name of sanity have you got on your head?
The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
Steven Moffat
#86. It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
James Wolcott
#87. Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention
a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?
C.S. Lewis
#88. Life is complex and prone to being pedantic
Always little things crawl, flutter
and creep in.
Nesting in cracks in our psyches
Gibbering, whispering and scratching
on sanity's walls.
Messages without form or reason
Teasing us to come out
And blend in.
Neil Leckman
#89. 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
#90. He wasn't sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him, but he knew the two phenomena were connected. And in the midst of the mystery lay his father. His father's sanity. Nicholas was sure of this.
Kevin Wallis
#91. Losing a sense of time is an easy way to lose one's grip and even one's sanity.
Nelson Mandela
#92. Careful practical work is the best expression of our freedom and safeguard of our sanity. In a healthy society, such work is the means most consistently available for people to practice holiness of life, to imitate God's enabling and sustaining care for the world.
Ellen F. Davis
#94. 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
#95. Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.
Maureen McCormick
#96. It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
Roy Blount Jr.
#97. August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Henry Rollins
#98. Sometimes doing what's necessary seems crazy but it's the highest form of sanity.
Shane Kuhn
#99. 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
#100. 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
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