Sanity Quotes
Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.
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.
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.
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.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
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.
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.
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.
River Song: Right, I have questions. But number one is this: what in the name of sanity have you got on your head? The Doctor: It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
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.
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.
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.