Sanity Quotes

Sanity Quote of the day

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.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

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

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

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

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.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

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

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!!!

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

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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

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

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

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

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

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

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...

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

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

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

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.

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

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

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

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

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.

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.

To be able to forget means sanity.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.