Sanity Quotes

446 Sanity quotes by 353 unique authors

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting… — Stephen King
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where… — David Sheff
At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting.… — Candace Bushnell
People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin) — Nancy Werlin
how can he love me then not? He went,he ran. And I cannot bring him back. Yet I left the door metaphorically wide open, hoping… — Freya North
Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look. — Julie Anne Peters
It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil. — Daphne du Maurier
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions — Marshall McLuhan
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is… — Stephen King
What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness? — Josephine Winslow Johnson
Collective madness is called sanity .. — Paulo Coelho
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. — Barry Hughart
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. — Frank Herbert
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. — Eckhart Tolle
I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of… — Bret Easton Ellis
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very… — Anne Rice
Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags.… — Suzanne Collins
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. — Erich Fromm
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane. — Terry Goodkind
Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before. — Tite Kubo
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that… — Terry Pratchett
...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her. — Anne Mallory

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