Sanity Quotes
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Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.
James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
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Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
Teju Cole
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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.
Chogyam Trungpa
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
George Bernard Shaw
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It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
Louise Erdrich
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Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.
David Low
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As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.
Anthony Green Circa Survive
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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Chogyam Trungpa
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God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.
Josie Loren
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What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
Bill Vaughan
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
Virginia Woolf
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August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
John Ensign
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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
Anthony Trollope
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I am insane, with small intervals of horrible sanity.
Arin Paul
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
Wallace Stegner
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The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
Chogyam Trungpa
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
Bram Stoker
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It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.
Emily Dickinson
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Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
Barry Hughart
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Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that.
Cathy Lamb
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Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?
Rachel Caine
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The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
Tom Harkin
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Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.
Dan Smith