Sanity Quotes

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Doubt tempers belief with 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.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

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.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

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

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

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

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

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.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

Sanity is a compromise.

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.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.