Sane Quotes

529 quotes by 416 authors

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you,… — Donald Barthelme
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur,… — Hunter S. Thompson
There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane? — Terry Pratchett
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good.… — John Irving
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world… — Mark Twain
I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane. — Neil Gaiman
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad… — E E Cummings
You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two… — George Orwell
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All,… — Emily Dickinson
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane. — Kurt Vonnegut
Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.… — Shirley Jackson
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. — George Eliot
She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession… — Michael Cunningham
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and… — Christopher Moore
I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them. — Charles Bukowski
Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on… — Miguel de Cervantes
the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things. — Charles Bukowski

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