Sanity Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

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

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.

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

Where sanity is there God is.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.

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.

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

I've had to find my sanity.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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

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

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

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

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

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

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.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

By this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

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

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

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

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.

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

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

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