Quotes about Sanity

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. Votes: 9

Sanity is not statistical. Votes: 7

Sanity is madness put to good use. Votes: 7

Sanity is a cozy lie. Votes: 6

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Votes: 6

Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. Votes: 6

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. Votes: 6

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. Votes: 6

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Votes: 6

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. Votes: 6

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. Votes: 6

Too much sanity may be madness. Votes: 4

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. Votes: 4

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

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Votes: 4

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb. Votes: 4

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. Votes: 4

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. Votes: 4

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions Votes: 4

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree. Votes: 4

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 colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. Votes: 4

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society. Votes: 4

Sanity is a compromise. Votes: 3

Worse than madness. Sanity. Votes: 3

My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you. Votes: 3

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary. Votes: 3

Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color. Votes: 3

Sanity - a trick of agreement Votes: 3

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you Votes: 3

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Votes: 3

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane Votes: 3

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. Votes: 3

Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything. Votes: 3

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency. Votes: 3

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus! Votes: 3

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing. Votes: 3

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil. Votes: 3

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease. Votes: 3

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself. Votes: 3

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. Votes: 3

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time. Votes: 3

Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before. Votes: 3

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. Votes: 3

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. Votes: 3

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial. Votes: 3

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. Votes: 3

Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place. Votes: 3

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right. Votes: 3

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. Votes: 3

There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference. Votes: 3

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse Votes: 3

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot. Votes: 3

Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. Votes: 3

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. Votes: 3

Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that. Votes: 3

To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy. Votes: 3

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. Votes: 3

Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement. Votes: 3

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: 3

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions. Votes: 3

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account. Votes: 3

While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. Votes: 3

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 save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. Votes: 3

Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane. Votes: 3

Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart. Votes: 3

Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit? Votes: 3

Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye. Votes: 3

When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. Votes: 3

Chemotherapy tests your sanity. Votes: 2

Sanity's a virginity of the mind Votes: 2

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. Votes: 2

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. Votes: 2

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. Votes: 2

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. Votes: 2

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. Votes: 2

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. Votes: 2

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one. Votes: 2

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is. Votes: 2

God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them. Votes: 2

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. Votes: 2

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning. Votes: 2

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you. Votes: 2

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. Votes: 2

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. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. Votes: 2

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.' Votes: 2

Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. Votes: 2

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 human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. Votes: 2

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. Votes: 2

I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much. Votes: 2

Doubt tempers belief with sanity. Votes: 0

Collective madness is called sanity .. Votes: 0

I've had to find my sanity. Votes: 0

Where sanity is there God is. Votes: 0

Art is a guarantee of sanity. Votes: 0

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity. Votes: 0

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Votes: 0

To be able to forget means sanity. Votes: 0

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity. Votes: 0

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity. Votes: 0

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

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason. Votes: 0

I often question my sanity. Occasionally, it replies. Votes: 0

My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity. Votes: 0

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. Votes: 0

...my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me. Votes: 0

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness? Votes: 0

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. Votes: 0

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. Votes: 0

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love. Votes: 0

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity. Votes: 0

The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude. Votes: 0

Stay optimistic to the point where people question your sanity. Votes: 0

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity. Votes: 0

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil. Votes: 0

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. Votes: 0

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. Votes: 0

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin) Votes: 0

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's. Votes: 0

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that Votes: 0

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ... Votes: 0

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. Votes: 0

We`re going to put sanity back into the White House. Votes: 0

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change. Votes: 0

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity. Votes: 0

Misery loves company. For the sake of your sanity, avoid entertaining her. Votes: 0

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness Votes: 0

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. Votes: 0

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity. Votes: 0

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity. Votes: 0

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness. Votes: 0

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity. Votes: 0

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity. Votes: 0

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test. Votes: 0

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are. Votes: 0

You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity. Votes: 0

The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity. Votes: 0

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity. Votes: 0

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way. Votes: 0

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. Votes: 0

Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity? Votes: 0

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. Votes: 0

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression. Votes: 0

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. Votes: 0

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation Votes: 0

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity. Votes: 0

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times. Votes: 0

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world Votes: 0

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. Votes: 0

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. Votes: 0

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier. Votes: 0

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. Votes: 0

I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity. Votes: 0

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. Votes: 0

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity. Votes: 0

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity. Votes: 0

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity... Votes: 0

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit. Votes: 0

In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity. Votes: 0

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it. Votes: 0

This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key. Votes: 0

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity. Votes: 0

I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic. Votes: 0

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness. Votes: 0

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops. Votes: 0

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said. Votes: 0

Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look. Votes: 0

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity. Votes: 0

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. Votes: 0

You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity. Votes: 0

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense. Votes: 0

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something. Votes: 0

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity. Votes: 0

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity. Votes: 0

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity. Votes: 0

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times. Votes: 0

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity. Votes: 0

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around! Votes: 0

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close. Votes: 0

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. Votes: 0

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane. Votes: 0

If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity. Votes: 0

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity. Votes: 0

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. Votes: 0

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. Votes: 0

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/ Votes: 0

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? Votes: 0

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. Votes: 0

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity. Votes: 0

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity. Votes: 0

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind. Votes: 0

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. Votes: 0

Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security. Votes: 0

They say this soul hunting will cost me my sanity,i say i'd go insane if i stop. Votes: 0

As a man I am not a killer. I'm an artist and a modern person. I'll choose sanity. Votes: 0

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity. Votes: 0

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together. Votes: 0

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political. Votes: 0

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity. Votes: 0

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9, Votes: 0

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake. Votes: 0

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor. Votes: 0

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. Votes: 0

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. Votes: 0

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. Votes: 0

Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow. Votes: 0

It's disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world? Votes: 0

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation. Votes: 0

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. Votes: 0

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too. Votes: 0

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it! Votes: 0

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up. Votes: 0

Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat. Votes: 0

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning. Votes: 0

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity. Votes: 0

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists. Votes: 0

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity. Votes: 0

If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity. Votes: 0

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. Votes: 0

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces. Votes: 0

I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun. Votes: 0

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean. Votes: 0

I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo. Votes: 0

I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity! Votes: 0

Seek above all for a game worth playing. Play as if your life and sanity depend on it, because they do! Votes: 0

My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start. Votes: 0

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity. Votes: 0

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples. Votes: 0

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths. Votes: 0

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. Votes: 0

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted. Votes: 0

Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around. Votes: 0

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. Votes: 0

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity. Votes: 0

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse. Votes: 0

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life. Votes: 0

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit. Votes: 0

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. Votes: 0

What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins. Votes: 0

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. Votes: 0

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal. Votes: 0

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness. Votes: 0

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity. Votes: 0

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand. Votes: 0

I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I've been through too much drama. He has to be 100%. Votes: 0

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity. Votes: 0

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity. Votes: 0

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now. Votes: 0

Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar. Votes: 0

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion. Votes: 0

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. Votes: 0

You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody?" "Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader." He nodded. "Probably safer for your sanity. Votes: 0

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future. Votes: 0

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. Votes: 0

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens. Votes: 0

Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value. Votes: 0

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism. Votes: 0

In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity. Votes: 0

Why don't you make a contibution to my sanity, and do the one thing you never seem to be able to do... SHUT UP!!! Votes: 0

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu. Votes: 0

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement. Votes: 0

Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen. Votes: 0

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival. Votes: 0

To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while. Votes: 0

As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity. Votes: 0

Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries. Votes: 0

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 sanity. Votes: 0

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet. Votes: 0

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 sanity. Votes: 0

We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality. Votes: 0

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity. Votes: 0

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. Votes: 0

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familar,eternalizing the poet's own poerception in unique and original verbal form. Votes: 0

For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple. Votes: 0

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go. Votes: 0

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. Votes: 0

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity. Votes: 0

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats. Votes: 0

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. Votes: 0

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity. Votes: 0

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors. Votes: 0

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity. Votes: 0

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting. Votes: 0

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life...your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew. Votes: 0

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity. Votes: 0

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal. Votes: 0

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. Votes: 0

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too Votes: 0

If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid. Votes: 0

The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love. Votes: 0

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion. Votes: 0

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept. Votes: 0

If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity. Votes: 0

For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it. Votes: 0

We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc. Votes: 0

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. Votes: 0

Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view. Votes: 0

Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their children, their pets, their environments, well-being in general. Votes: 0

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity. Votes: 0

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness... Votes: 0

That's what everyone forgets these days: there's a fine line between sanity and insanity. Lots of people are on the edge. We can't be in perfect balance all the time. Votes: 0

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 simple hold down a job. Votes: 0

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 moving easily under the flesh. Votes: 0

America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex? Votes: 0

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity. Votes: 0

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor. Votes: 0

Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern. Votes: 0

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude. Votes: 0

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us. Votes: 0

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes. Votes: 0

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 only the screaming bedlam of sleep. Votes: 0

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards. Votes: 0

Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need. Votes: 0

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 there had been only chaos and insanity. Votes: 0

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived. Votes: 0

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity. Votes: 0

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes." Votes: 0

A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak. Votes: 0

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world. Votes: 0

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 sure? Humor is a very private thing. 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

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 himself, and calls out in his sleep. Votes: 0

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. Votes: 0

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it. 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 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

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder. Votes: 0

But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden. Votes: 0

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is. Votes: 0

Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change. Votes: 0

[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 her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace she wore. Votes: 0

Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear. Votes: 0

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence. Votes: 0

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands. Votes: 0

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 the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts. Votes: 0

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion. Votes: 0

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes. Votes: 0

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later. 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 system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it's important to remember that folks of color know their own realities. Votes: 0

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 her to seek those who would save her from herself. Votes: 0