Sanity Quotes

446 Sanity quotes by 353 unique authors

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. — Julia Cameron
Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. — Jim Butcher
To be able to forget means sanity. — Jack London
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity. — Kurt Vonnegut
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls… — Julia Cameron
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka. — Jim Butcher
I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be,… — Tina St. John
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I… — Margaret Atwood
Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow. — Brandon Mull
Once upon a time is now. — Emilie Autumn
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops. — Emilie Autumn
It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity. — Nelson DeMille
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. — David Foster Wallace
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity. — Eckhart Tolle
Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity? — Rachel Caine
This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my… — Sebastian Barry
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. — Bram Stoker
This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key. — Suzanne Collins
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation — Terence McKenna
There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference. — Karen Chance
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have… — Adam Phillips

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