Sanity Quotes

446 Sanity quotes by 353 unique authors

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for… — Hunter S. Thompson
Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane — Emily Dickinson
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the… — Herman Melville
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced… — Anthony Trollope
Sanity is not statistical. — George Orwell
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely… — Edgar Allan Poe
Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to… — John Irving
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson
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
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is… — Edgar Allan Poe
I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms… — P.D. James
You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. — George Orwell
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. — Mark Twain
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is… — Philip K. Dick
That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion. — Marguerite Duras
Sanity’s a virginity of the mind — Steve Aylett
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones… — Doris Lessing
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity. — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual… — Orson Scott Card
Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath… — Vikram Chandra
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. — Kurt Vonnegut
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand. — E. M. Forster
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only… — Thomas Szasz
[She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of… — Virginia Woolf

Who Wrote These Sanity Quotes

353 authors contributed a total of 446 Sanity Quotes, led by these top contributors: