Sanity Quotes

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.

If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody?" "Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader." He nodded. "Probably safer for your sanity.

If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

And what would they find on sale? His sanity? Could be. Half-Price. Smoke and Water Damage. Everything Must Go.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

If I can only see him in madness, is it worth trying to hold onto sanity?

What I cannot love, I overlook.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!