1.
No temporary chaos is worth your sanity.
Nas
No fleeting disarray is worth your mental equilibrium.
2.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Saint Augustine
The facts are like a lion; no need to bolster them. Open the gate and let them out; they will protect themselves.
5.
No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.
Nas
7.
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
Sigmund Freud
8.
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
Chogyam Trungpa
10.
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
Marshall McLuhan
11.
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
Jim Butcher
12.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
13.
That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
Marguerite Duras
14.
You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.
Matt Groening
15.
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
Barry Hughart
16.
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.
Edith Wharton
17.
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan
18.
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.
Bill W.
19.
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
Anthony Burgess
21.
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.
Diahann Carroll
23.
Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.
Zohra Sehgal
24.
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.
Georges Bataille
25.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamara
26.
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
Nellie Bly
28.
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
Studs Terkel
29.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Erich Fromm
30.
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
31.
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.
Anthony Trollope
32.
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
Emilie Autumn
33.
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
Mark Twain
34.
We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.
John Carpenter
38.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
H. G. Wells
39.
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.
Matthew Hussey
40.
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
Aristotle
41.
The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.
Julie Powell
43.
Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
Joan Baez
44.
In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.
R. D. Laing
45.
If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.
Chogyam Trungpa
46.
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.
Terry Pratchett
47.
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.
L. Ron Hubbard
48.
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.
Bill Gross
49.
What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.
Bill Vaughan
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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.
Joyce Appleby