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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.
Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
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.
I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.
Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
I knew I needed to workout for my sanity, and I try and make it a daily habit if I can, so I count myself very lucky that I have been able to keep doing that while pregnant.
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.
Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.
When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!
For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.
There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.
No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.
In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.
For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.
And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it
In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.
and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.
I'm a very private person, not much of a party person. That's how I keep my sanity.
I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe that you've got to be in the theater.
In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.
The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.
Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.
The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity.
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
