Best 280 quotes in «sanity quotes» category

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

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

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

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

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

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.

...my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me.

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

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

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.

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.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

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

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

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

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

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

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

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...

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!!!

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

Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

We`re going to put sanity back into the White House.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

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

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

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

27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it.

A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

A more fundamental problem with labelling human distress and deviance as mental disorder is that it reduces a complex, important, and distinct part of human life to nothing more than a biological illness or defect, not to be processed or understood, or in some cases even embraced, but to be ‘treated’ and ‘cured’ by any means possible—often with drugs that may be doing much more harm than good. This biological reductiveness, along with the stigma that it attracts, shapes the person’s interpretation and experience of his distress or deviance, and, ultimately, his relation to himself, to others, and to the world. Moreover, to call out every difference and deviance as mental disorder is also to circumscribe normality and define sanity, not as tranquillity or possibility, which are the products of the wisdom that is being denied, but as conformity, placidity, and a kind of mediocrity.

Almost everything that will be said or done by someone who is suspected of being insane will seem to confirm that suspicion.

Almost every sane person is at least two different people.

Am I sure of what I am searching?’ Of course not, but one has to live with an illusion that we are searching for something with which people can relate and not mistake us for being crazy and thereby proof of our sanity to the world.

Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.

And I still say it was just a coincidence;' he muttered pugnaciously. 'You say it too! Look at me and say it! It was just a coincidence. That happened to be the nearest place on the dial where they both met exactly, those two hands. My blows dented them. They got stuck there just as the works died, that was all. Stay sane whatever you do. Say it over and over. It was just a coincidence!' Outside the tall French windows, in the velvety night-sky, the stars in all their glory twinkled derisively in at them. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

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

Ariella was silent, and I reached out to take her hand, squeezing as if it were a lifeline, holding me to sanity.

Are the fae ever sane? We live in a world that isn't there half the time. We claim that windmills are giants, and because we say it, it's true. Our lives become myth and legend, until even we can't tell what we truly are from what we're told we ought to be. How can we live that way and be considered sane? My lord was never sane, but he was my love once. He always will be, somewhere. Wherever it is that the once upon a times go when they die.

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

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

A sane man is at his sanest just after he has orgasmed.

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.

At the edge you will always remember me, at the edge you will last be remembered, where sanity and insanity come together, for the time, then separates. Like leaves on October trees, that color the world, but for a moment, then leave. At the edge, where life losses its edginess, and thoughts we will become one, someday. At the edge the sun drops, the ring falls, and senses of raindrops climb upwards to the gray sky.

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.