Sanity Quotes

446 Sanity quotes by 353 unique authors

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they… — L. Ron Hubbard
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole
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… — Bel Kaufman
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. — Studs Terkel
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for… — Cherrie Moraga
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are. — Philip Larkin
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if… — P.D. James
In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is… — Rajneesh
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. — Alfred Korzybski
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. — Unknown Author
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. — Jean Dubuffet
What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure… — Archibald Cox
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind. — Roy Blount, Jr.
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… — Georges Bataille
It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and… — Edvard Munch
As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity. — Frank Ocean
Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/ — Daniel Goleman
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. — Robert M. Pirsig
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse — Chogyam Trungpa
A dishonest yes is a no to yourself. — Byron Katie
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
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… — Trent Reznor
Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what… — Gangaji
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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… — Wilma Rudolph

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