Quotation Explorer - 'Sanity'

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. - Mark Twain
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? - George Price
We rode in silence, I think all of us wondering what was behind the flowery wallpaper our perceptions had always pasted on the unknown. All the things the mind won't allow us to see, to protect our sanity, or our soul, or maybe just to keep the shit out of our pants. - David Wong
A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now. - Dorothea Tanning
Misery loves company. For the sake of your sanity, avoid entertaining her. - Andrena Sawyer
Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. - Tahir Shah
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
To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while. - Vironika Tugaleva
Motherhood is a constant battle of wanting to go to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and wanting to stay awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity! - Tanya Masse
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane. - Stefan Molyneux
Sanity and sense becomes a prison. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell
How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity. - Cecelia Ahern
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. - Lois Wyse
What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.
We are all a little schizophrenic. Each of us has three different people living inside us every day—who you were, who you are and who you will become. The road to sanity is to recognize those identities, in order to know who you are today. - Shannon L. Alder
If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet. - Jaeda DeWalt
I became insane, with long periods of horrible sanity.
The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss. - Charles Slagle
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.
The problem with social media is that it's great for your ego, but terrible for your sanity. - Andrena Sawyer
Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception. - Luis Marques
Lack of culture equals to parallel lives, however through art, oneness, sanity and sense of belonging is restored. - Unarine Ramaru
In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food. - Munia Khan
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. - Norman Cousins
To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close. - Tawny Lara
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Careful practical work is the best expression of our freedom and safeguard of our sanity. In a healthy society, such work is the means most consistently available for people to practice holiness of life, to imitate God's enabling and sustaining care for the world. - Ellen F. Davis
Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment. - Criss Jami
Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen. - Rebecca McKinsey
Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person’s life must remain private for the preservation of one’s sanity is almost frivolous. - Aysha Taryam
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops. - Emilie Autumn
The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity. - Roman Payne
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity. - Diane Ackerman
Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown
Solitude is sanity. - Lailah Gifty Akita
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. - Ursula K. Le Guin
I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity. - Christopher Page
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. - Miguel De Cervantes
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity. - L. Ron Hubbard
Home is not necessarily, where the heart is. It is also, where good food,people, and sanity resides.even if that accounts for a house, with no people in it. - anjali mukherjee
Where does the violet tint end and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blending enter into the other. So with sanity and insanity. - Herman Melville
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. - Oscar Wilde
You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities. - K.M. Mac Aulay "Black Anna"
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. - Ashly Lorenzana
Sanity is a cozy lie. - Susan Sontag
Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination? - Mark Twain
Sanity is not statistical. - George Orwell
To keep your sanity, when everything seems like it's going wrong, focus on the one thing that's going right! - Diamante Lavendar
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world. - Gore Vidal
Sanity is a madness put to good use. - George Santayana
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. - Doris Lessing
If you must keep a journal for puposes of sanity, adopt an illegible hand. - R. Bryan Love
Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness. - Munia Khan
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