Sanity Quotes

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.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my 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.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

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

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.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.

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.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.