“You thought I was mad. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I am. It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as… — James Wolcott 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
The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is a glimpse of me that I'd like to keep private. And I believe that is necessary for my kind of… — Ileana D'Cruz Copy Share Image
Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state.… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a suspended state, moored in nothing but itself. You test the ground an inch in front of you, move forward… — M.R. Carey Copy Share Image
“Sane...Insane, it's all a matter of balance. Keeping your sanity is like walking a tightrope across some great abyss. If the slightest… — Terry Lovett Copy Share Image
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“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 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
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe… — Carol Channing Copy Share Image
The only good thing about hitting rock bottom is knowing things cant get to much worse — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense. — Gene Spafford Copy Share Image
“In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. No one expected me to live, and therefore, I did. Always.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time — Norman Cousins 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
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Ariella was silent, and I reached out to take her hand, squeezing as if it were a lifeline, holding me to sanity.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. — Winston Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
