...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“I am yet to see an insane who would use the mid of the high way as a home. Regardless of the… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic. — David Rosenfelt Copy Share Image
To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity;… — George Stanley Copy Share Image