Top 611 Sanity Quotes & Sayings

To be able to forget means sanity.

I had identified discipline as a really important part of my life, in maintaining my sanity. It's kind of interesting when people don't know me and then get to know me and see just how workaholic I am and how unhappy I am when I don't have something to work on, or if I am not provided with the tools to be able to accomplish those things, like touring without my looping rig or without a piano, I'm just kind of like, 'Aahhh, what do I do with my day?' To me, that's just a large part of my sanity.

There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine split in it. At one end there's insanity. You go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle, close to insanity, but not insanity, is unsanity.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is not statistical.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity.

Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

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.

He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

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.

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!

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

Where sanity is there God is.

I want to keep my sanity.

Collective madness is called sanity.

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

I've had to find my sanity.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

When it got to the point of sanity or money, I thought I'd rather have sanity.

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.

My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

Sanity - a trick of agreement

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Sanity is a compromise.

I have only one goal in golf - to leave it with my sanity.