Sane Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Without doubt you are not sane.

See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane?

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

Beware by whom you are called sane.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

A man who is 100% sane is dead.

If you have no doubt, you are not sane.

I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.

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

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.

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

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

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

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

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

...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.

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.

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

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

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.

Art is man determined to die sane.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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