Top 611 Sanity Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations.
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!
I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
Why don't you make a contibution to my sanity, and do the one thing you never seem to be able to do... SHUT UP!!!
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Seek above all for a game worth playing. Play as if your life and sanity depend on it, because they do!
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.
For the sake of calm in the country, I am ready to sacrifice my own sanity.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.
You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
By this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.
I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.
One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.
It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
I completely understand how temporary fame is, and I keep my sanity at all times.
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
