Sanity Quotes

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Long, Insane, Horrible

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost

Society, Point, Doubtful

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

Best, Friends, Suffering

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Erich Fromm

Thought, Within, Frame

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Alice Walker

Children, Start, Teaching

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
Stephen King

Life, Time, Good

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
Jean Dubuffet

Creativity, Means, Insanity

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes

Life, May, Madness

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler

Peace, History, Car

Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana

Good, Put, Madness

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
Dee Dee Myers

Humor, Hurt, Sense

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.
Paul Ryan

Good, Fight, Done

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

Real, Tell, Ability

Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
Billy Corgan

Character, Mind, Makes

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Anthony Storr

Place, Wrong, Between

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.
Julie Andrews

Nature, Best, Mother

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.
James Thurber

Time, Sleep, End

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

Mind, Human, Keep

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.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Important, Boring, Give

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
Tony Blair

Life, Wife, Two

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
James Wolcott

Unique, Appreciate, Scene

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.
James Earl Jones

Life, Human, She

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.
Eliot Spitzer

Government, Give, Here

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

Humor, Sense, Keep

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Norman Mailer

Mind, Impossible, Become

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
Rachel McAdams

Work, Great, Try

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
Rachel McAdams

Work, Good, Great

There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
Jeffrey Kluger

Children, Night, While

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Michael Sheen

Life, Death, Human

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