Sanity Quotes

446 Sanity quotes by 353 unique authors

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. — Billy Corgan
Chemotherapy tests your sanity. — Melissa Etheridge
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In… — Sam Harris
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. — Hermann Hesse
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. — Mick Jagger
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other… — James Earl Jones
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. — Carl Jung
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity.… — Stephen King
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly… — Jeffrey Kluger
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. — Akira Kurosawa
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. — Norman Mailer
Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to… — Dee Dee Myers
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. — Edgar Allan Poe
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or… — Salman Rushdie
If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things.… — Paul Ryan
Sanity is madness put to good use. — George Santayana
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a… — Michael Sheen
Sanity is a cozy lie. — Susan Sontag
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. — Anthony Storr
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to… — James Thurber
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. — Alvin Toffler
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. — Alice Walker
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde
Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream. — Edgar Allan Poe
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of… — Bertrand Russell

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