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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Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
H. Beam Piper
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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
N. F. Simpson
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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
Martha Gellhorn
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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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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Chogyam Trungpa
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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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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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Something had to happen between them. Two people cannot play a conspiracy for so long, and play it each on his own. There came a moment, when, in the dross of lies, the truth, known to them both, had to be asserted, and for their own sanity, shared.
Bernice Rubens
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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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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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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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I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
Studs Terkel
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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 am insane, with small intervals of horrible sanity.
Arin Paul
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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.
Walt Whitman
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You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!
George S. Kaufman