Sanity Quotes
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She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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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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Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.
N. F. Simpson
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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, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
H. Beam Piper
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Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am insane, with small intervals of horrible sanity.
Arin Paul
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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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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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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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You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!
George S. Kaufman
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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