Quotes about Sane

Every man has a sane spot somewhere. Votes: 6

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Votes: 6

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Votes: 6

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. Votes: 6

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Votes: 6

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Votes: 6

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Votes: 6

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. Votes: 6

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education. Votes: 6

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. Votes: 6

No sane man will dance. Votes: 4

I'll be the in to your sane. Votes: 4

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. Votes: 4

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am. Votes: 4

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. Votes: 4

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane. Votes: 4

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. Votes: 4

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. Votes: 4

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy. Votes: 4

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. Votes: 4

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? Votes: 4

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. Votes: 4

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. Votes: 4

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. Votes: 4

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems,'' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life. Votes: 4

Sane is boring. Votes: 3

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love) Votes: 3

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise. Votes: 3

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything. Votes: 3

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. Votes: 3

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Votes: 3

I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed. Votes: 3

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo. Votes: 3

I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe. Votes: 3

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. Votes: 3

Rose," he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, "I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what's not on the list? Sane. Votes: 3

I don't really trust a sane person. Votes: 2

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane. Votes: 2

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera. Votes: 2

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. Votes: 2

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. Votes: 2

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there. Votes: 2

Life isn't a 24/7 merry go round. If it were, you wouldn't get the 7 hours of sleep necessary to keep you fit and sane. Votes: 2

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. Votes: 2

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. Votes: 2

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things. Votes: 2

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real. Votes: 2

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. Votes: 2

These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it. Votes: 2

I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people. Votes: 2

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn. Votes: 2

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement. Votes: 2

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world. Votes: 1

It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. Votes: 1

When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems. Votes: 1

Music keeps people sane. Votes: 0

Theater helps people keep sane. Votes: 0

The majority is always sane. Votes: 0

Is Bobby Fischer quite sane? Votes: 0

No sane person fears nothingness. Votes: 0

I'm the designated sane person. Votes: 0

No family is sane, is it? Votes: 0

Without doubt you are not sane. Votes: 0

The more intelligent, the less sane Votes: 0

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Votes: 0

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane. Votes: 0

Working with my hands keeps me sane. Votes: 0

Music kept me sane between acting jobs. Votes: 0

Art is man determined to die sane. Votes: 0

Forgiveness can help you to be sane. Votes: 0

It's not easy being the sane one! Votes: 0

It's a poor thing to be sane! Votes: 0

Beware by whom you are called sane. Votes: 0

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish. Votes: 0

He who can simulate sanity will be sane. Votes: 0

I'm very sane about how crazy I am. Votes: 0

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane Votes: 0

No sane society chooses to commit national suicide. Votes: 0

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary. Votes: 0

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum. Votes: 0

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. Votes: 0

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend. Votes: 0

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts. Votes: 0

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal. Votes: 0

Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world. Votes: 0

I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing. Votes: 0

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess. Votes: 0

It's so nice to have sane friends. I imagine. Votes: 0

If you have no doubt, you are not sane. Votes: 0

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men. Votes: 0

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ... Votes: 0

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion. Votes: 0

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. Votes: 0

Illusion is sometimes all that keeps us sane." - Anita Votes: 0

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane Votes: 0

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have. Votes: 0

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane? Votes: 0

Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you're sane. Votes: 0

I went to a regular school... education kept me sane. Votes: 0

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. Votes: 0

Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad"¦ Votes: 0

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy. Votes: 0

The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Votes: 0

Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. Votes: 0

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane. Votes: 0

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. Votes: 0

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner. Votes: 0

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy. Votes: 0

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer. Votes: 0

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. Votes: 0

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out. Votes: 0

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up. Votes: 0

Paradoxes only stump sane people. Nuts have irrational on our side. Votes: 0

I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess. Votes: 0

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. Votes: 0

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane? Votes: 0

In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane Votes: 0

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. Votes: 0

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. Votes: 0

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane? Votes: 0

If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane. Votes: 0

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. Votes: 0

See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane? Votes: 0

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be. Votes: 0

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday. Votes: 0

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers. Votes: 0

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane. Votes: 0

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. Votes: 0

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane. Votes: 0

Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is. Votes: 0

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane. Votes: 0

I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane Votes: 0

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is. Votes: 0

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war. Votes: 0

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more. Votes: 0

Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind Votes: 0

No sane human being devotes 100% of his or her life to political activism. Votes: 0

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person. Votes: 0

Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what. Votes: 0

People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself. Votes: 0

This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet. Votes: 0

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind? Votes: 0

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ... Votes: 0

My friends are the friends I've had forever, that's kept me very sane. Votes: 0

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. Votes: 0

Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal. Votes: 0

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. Votes: 0

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane Votes: 0

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. Votes: 0

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. Votes: 0

Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter. Votes: 0

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America. Votes: 0

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it. Votes: 0

Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent. Votes: 0

While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend. Votes: 0

Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane. Votes: 0

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. Votes: 0

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society? Votes: 0

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future. Votes: 0

Music was a college attendee's survival essential; he'd need that to keep himself sane. Votes: 0

Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back. Votes: 0

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane. Votes: 0

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! Votes: 0

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. Votes: 0

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen. Votes: 0

My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane! Votes: 0

I'd rather be insane with you than sane without you. - Jake to Lydia Votes: 0

She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete Votes: 0

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Votes: 0

I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.' Votes: 0

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there. Votes: 0

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist. Votes: 0

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press. Votes: 0

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people. Votes: 0

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive. Votes: 0

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. Votes: 0

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer Votes: 0

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! Votes: 0

I've always said, 'Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane,' Votes: 0

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons. Votes: 0

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are. Votes: 0

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living. Votes: 0

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up. Votes: 0

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white. Votes: 0

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. Votes: 0

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so. Votes: 0

But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question. Votes: 0

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also. Votes: 0

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor. Votes: 0

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart. Votes: 0

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never! Votes: 0

The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home. Votes: 0

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy. Votes: 0

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is. Votes: 0

Life is love, heartache and strain, Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane. Votes: 0

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane. Votes: 0

You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people. Votes: 0

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental. Votes: 0

Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane. Votes: 0

I'm very domestic, and I think that keeps me sane. My personal relationships keep me grounded. Votes: 0

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? Votes: 0

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. Votes: 0

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane. Votes: 0

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts. Votes: 0

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four. Votes: 0

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. Votes: 0

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Votes: 0

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. Votes: 0

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. Votes: 0

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Votes: 0

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church? Votes: 0

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad. Votes: 0

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. Votes: 0

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality. Votes: 0

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage. Votes: 0

I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world. Votes: 0

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is. Votes: 0

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. Votes: 0

It's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy. Votes: 0

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. Votes: 0

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy. Votes: 0

I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person. Votes: 0

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes. Votes: 0

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. Votes: 0

TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE Votes: 0

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane. Votes: 0

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them. Votes: 0

Somebody has to be sane during regular business hours, and it's not going to be me, missy. Votes: 0

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. Votes: 0

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. Votes: 0

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane. Votes: 0

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad. Votes: 0

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane. Votes: 0

I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane. Votes: 0

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace. Votes: 0

Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane? Votes: 0

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. Votes: 0

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth. Votes: 0

Hate is a powerful emotion. It can take over a sane man's mind and cloud it with insanity. Votes: 0

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. Votes: 0

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket. Votes: 0

Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that's my primary motivation to 'find time.' Votes: 0

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Votes: 0

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane. Votes: 0

If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach. Votes: 0

People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word. Votes: 0

I spend as much time as possible at my stable in the Hollywood Hills. It keeps me sane. Votes: 0

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. Votes: 0

I'm back in the old attic again, writing to relieve my pains.Pen and Paper keeps me sane. Votes: 0

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. Votes: 0

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people. Votes: 0

You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much. Votes: 0

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane. Votes: 0

Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane. Votes: 0

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself. Votes: 0

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Votes: 0

Who says I'm insane?Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me.You're so sane, it's insane. Votes: 0

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell. Votes: 0

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that. Votes: 0

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. Votes: 0

Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain. Votes: 0

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane. Votes: 0

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well. Votes: 0

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life. Votes: 0

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound. Votes: 0

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. Votes: 0

I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy. Votes: 0

I was not dressed crazily - I was dressed as a horse. And for a very logical and sane reason. Votes: 0

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane. Votes: 0

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip. Votes: 0

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. Votes: 0

There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life. Votes: 0

An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person. Votes: 0

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane. Votes: 0

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things. Votes: 0

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality. Votes: 0

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Votes: 0

This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy. Votes: 0

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure. Votes: 0

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. Votes: 0

Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man? Votes: 0

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides. Votes: 0

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone. Votes: 0

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day. Votes: 0

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. Votes: 0

Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane. Votes: 0

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent. Votes: 0

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. Votes: 0

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either. Votes: 0

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane. Votes: 0

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not. Votes: 0

Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point. Votes: 0

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States. Votes: 0

Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character. Votes: 0

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane. Votes: 0

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. Votes: 0

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being. Votes: 0

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. Votes: 0

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that. Votes: 0

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity. Votes: 0

In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system. Votes: 0

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy. Votes: 0

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling. Votes: 0

Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. Votes: 0

The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked. Votes: 0

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. Votes: 0

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. Votes: 0

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world. Votes: 0

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots. Votes: 0

No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds? Votes: 0

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago. Votes: 0

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane. Votes: 0

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen. Votes: 0

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever. Votes: 0

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. Votes: 0

By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful. Votes: 0

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad. Votes: 0

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! Votes: 0

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane. Votes: 0

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that. Votes: 0

Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course it can't. Votes: 0

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane. Votes: 0

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all. Votes: 0

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. Votes: 0

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity. Votes: 0

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. Votes: 0

In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs. Votes: 0

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. Votes: 0

Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world! Votes: 0

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself. Votes: 0

My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk. Votes: 0

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. Votes: 0

Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable. Votes: 0

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world. Votes: 0

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality. Votes: 0

It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it. Votes: 0

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said Votes: 0

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. Votes: 0

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love. Votes: 0

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane Votes: 0

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. Votes: 0

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. Votes: 0

He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself. Votes: 0

for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it! Votes: 0

I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better. Votes: 0

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race. Votes: 0

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living. Votes: 0

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life. Votes: 0

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way. Votes: 0

Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior. Votes: 0

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. Votes: 0

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority. Votes: 0

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature. Votes: 0

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own. Votes: 0

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.' Votes: 0

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying. Votes: 0

...while a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports. Votes: 0

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials. Votes: 0

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart. Votes: 0

You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution. Votes: 0

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it. Votes: 0

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again? Votes: 0

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time. Votes: 0

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be. Votes: 0

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being. Votes: 0

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over. Votes: 0

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person. Votes: 0

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking. Votes: 0

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane. Votes: 0

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me. Votes: 0

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers. Votes: 0

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy. Votes: 0

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper? Votes: 0

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past. Votes: 0

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect. Votes: 0

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us. Votes: 0

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water. Votes: 0

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think. Votes: 0

She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts. Votes: 0

I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it. Votes: 0

Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane. Votes: 0

I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane. Votes: 0

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion. Votes: 0

Nearly all soldiers, and this applies even to professional soldiers in peacetime, have a sane attitude towards war. They realise that it is disgusting, and that it may often be necessary Votes: 0

Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff. Votes: 0

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world. Votes: 0

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there. Votes: 0

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone Votes: 0

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little. Votes: 0

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance. Votes: 0

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs. Votes: 0

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it. Votes: 0

Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time. Votes: 0

On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude. Votes: 0

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage. Votes: 0

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity. Votes: 0

Linda's presentation of the 'facts' had been so gruesome that the children left Alconleigh howling dismally, their nerves permanently impaired, their future chances of a sane and happy sex life much reduced." Votes: 0

It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments. Votes: 0

Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have ... Votes: 0

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. Votes: 0

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels. Votes: 0

You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn't exactly help me stay sane," I said. "Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason," said Becks. "That ship has sailed. Votes: 0

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact. Votes: 0

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane. Votes: 0

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule. Votes: 0

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species. Votes: 0

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad. Votes: 0

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane. Votes: 0

I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller. Votes: 0

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society? Votes: 0

I'm aware, as a sane person, that I'm not the best-looking guy in the world. I'm aware of it. But when I go into a party, I will walk out with your girlfriend. Votes: 0

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane. Votes: 0

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it Votes: 0

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice. Votes: 0

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it. Votes: 0

I could be a party girl, dating whoever I want and being reckless, but I like being in a relationship. When you have somebody who grounds you and keeps you sane, it helps. Votes: 0

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world. Votes: 0

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women. Votes: 0

I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane. Votes: 0

So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model. Votes: 0

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again. Votes: 0

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank. Votes: 0

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone. Votes: 0

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit. Votes: 0

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be. Votes: 0

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. Votes: 0

I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened. Votes: 0

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy. Votes: 0

Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I think I just need that balance to feel sane myself "” you know? Votes: 0

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked. Votes: 0

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane. Votes: 0

On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person Votes: 0

If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it. Votes: 0

Only those people are really sane who have transcended the mind, who have gone beyond it into silence where no thoughts, no desires, no emotions, nothing exists. Only in that peace is your real health. Votes: 0

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity. Votes: 0

The old idealistic republicans used to found democracy on the idea that all men were equally intelligent. Believe me, the sane and enduring democracy is founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic." Votes: 0

Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines. Votes: 0

A man who is 100% sane is dead. Votes: -1

We are poor indeed if we are only sane. Votes: -1