Top 82 World Sanity Quotes
#1. In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.
Rachel Caine
#2. 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
#3. In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye.
Robert Goddard
#4. 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
#5. At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
Winston Churchill
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?
Francesca Lia Block
#11. To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory.
Marty Rubin
#12. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
Norman Cousins
#13. In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.
Iain Pears
#15. Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)
Wendell Berry
#16. 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
#17. You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated along full of life, but not participating in life ... These people no longer made progress.
Anne Spollen
#18. To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.
Marty Rubin
#19. If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."
Sakyong Mipham
#20. 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
#21. I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.
Ruth Glick
#23. It is necessary to point out that we live in times in which extremity is simply the last remaining form of sanity in an increasingly mad world.
Chilton Williamson
#24. Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.
Gore Vidal
#26. When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
Terry Goodkind
#27. When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.
James A. Michener
#28. The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.
Cameron Jace
#29. There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
Bruce Cockburn
#30. A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world.
Deborah Tannen
#31. Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward as though it's solid. But the whole world is in freefall and you're in freefall with it.
M.R. Carey
#32. For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
Joyce Carol Oates
#33. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
H.G.Wells
#34. Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
Mark Lawrence
#35. No sane man sets out to save the world.
S.A. Bolich
#36. The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there ... Not the other way around!
John Cleese
#37. Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.
John Astin
#39. In this decaying world, these moments with her help keep me sane.
Thomm Quackenbush
#40. In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
Pam Brown
#41. I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island. A
H.G.Wells
#42. To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.
George Stanley
#43. 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
#44. Names like clouds. Names like forests. Names like ever unfolding mathematical structures - names that begat themselves, in dreams of recursion. Names that split the world in two. Names that would drive a nail through your sanity.
Alastair Reynolds
#45. What the world calls sanity has led us to the present planetary crisis ... and insanity is the only viable alternative.
Robert Anton Wilson
#46. Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
Michael Moorcock
#47. 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
#48. Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it.
Aldous Huxley
#49. Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.
Paul Merton
#50. Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as normal, if he were going to survive.
Michael Moorcock
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
James MacArthur
#54. In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.
Munia Khan
#55. It's an insane world but in it there is one sanity, the loyalty of old friends
Stephen Boyd
#56. Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
Gelett Burgess
#57. Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
Anthony Burgess
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#63. How much is real and for how long..
J. Limbu
#64. Sanity, remember, does not mean living in the same world as everyone else; it means living in the real world.
Frank Sheed
#65. I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity.
Amy Tan
#66. What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#67. A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. It's disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?
John Moffitt
#71. One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.
Trent Reznor
#72. 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
#73. What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
Wilma Rudolph
#74. My parents and their world represented a return to sanity and predictability, something I was longing for after all this madness.
Ransom Riggs
#75. I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.
Bel Kaufman
#76. Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.
Peter Kreeft
#77. The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
Barbara Marciniak
#78. Reading is an escape from the outside world. Everyone needs a little of that to keep their sanity.
Kim Holden
#79. One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.
Dave Chambers
#80. If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game ... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
Stanley Rous
#81. After all, humans - especially adult ones - want to believe the most mundane truths possible. They need to, in order to stop their world-views, and their sanity, from capsizing and plunging them into the vast ocean of the incomprehensible.
Matt Haig
#82. One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
Wallace Stegner
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