Sanity Quotes

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

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

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

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."

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

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

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.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

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.

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

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

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

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

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.

I often question my sanity. Occasionally, it replies.

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

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

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

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

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.

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

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

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.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

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

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

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

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

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.

...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.