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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. -- Erich Fromm
Sanity is not statistical. -- George Orwell
Sanity is madness put to good use. -- George Santayana
Sanity is a cozy lie. -- Susan Sontag
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. -- Jean Dubuffet
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. -- Alvin Toffler
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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. -- Rita Mae Brown
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
Too much sanity may be madness. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. -- Luis Miguel
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. -- Akira Kurosawa
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. -- Carl Jung
To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb. -- Stuart Wilde
You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. -- Matt Groening
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. -- Hermann Hesse
the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions -- Marshall McLuhan
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
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. -- Norman Mailer
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree. -- George Bernard Shaw
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. -- Herman Melville
Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society. -- Margaret Millar
Sanity is a compromise. -- Aleister Crowley
Worse than madness. Sanity. -- William Golding
My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary. -- Chogyam Trungpa
My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color. -- Forrest Carr
Sanity - a trick of agreement -- Allen Ginsberg
Sanity's a virginity of the mind -- Steve Aylett
Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane -- Emily Dickinson
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. -- Mark Twain
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. -- John Russell
Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything. -- Charles Manson
Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency. -- N. F. Simpson
You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus! -- George S. Kaufman
Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing. -- Euripides
Sanity is all that stands between good and evil. -- Raymond E. Feist
Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease. -- H. Beam Piper
Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself. -- David Bain
Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time. -- Renata Adler
Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before. -- Tite Kubo
We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville. -- Jim Butcher
Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. -- Anna Castillo
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. -- Anthony Burgess
Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial. -- Derek R. Audette
Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place. -- Tite Kubo
Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right. -- Mary McMullen
Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. -- George Orwell
There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference. -- Karen Chance
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse -- Chogyam Trungpa
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot. -- D. H. Lawrence
Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. -- Winston Smith
Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that. -- Cathy Lamb
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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. -- Matthew Arnold
Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement. -- Michael Leunig
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions. -- Marcus Aurelius
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. -- Margaret Atwood
Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane. -- Stefan Molyneux
Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart,Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart,Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart,Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart. -- Pushpa Rana
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit? -- C. S. Lewis
Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye. -- James Thurber
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. -- Ana Castillo
Chemotherapy tests your sanity. -- Melissa Etheridge
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. -- Tony Blair
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. -- Robert Frost
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. -- Robert McNamara
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. -- Tom Harkin
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. -- Henry Rollins
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. -- Anthony Storr
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one. -- Bruce Cockburn
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. -- Joan Didion
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them. -- Josie Loren
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. -- Mother Jones
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
For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you. -- Luke Evans
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. -- Rose Kennedy
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. -- Stephen King
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.' -- Elayne Boosler
Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. -- Brendon Burchard
Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. -- Michael Sheen
Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. -- Don Kardong
I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much. -- Dianna Agron
Collective madness is called sanity .. -- Paulo Coelho
Doubt tempers belief with sanity. -- Barbara Kruger
Where sanity is there God is. -- D. H. Lawrence
Art is a guarantee of sanity. -- Louise Bourgeois
I've had to find my sanity. -- Evangeline Lilly
Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity. -- David Low
To be able to forget means sanity. -- Jack London
No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. -- Nas
I often question my sanity. Occasionally, it replies. -- Darynda Jones
Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity. -- Pseudonymous Bosch
And when reality goes, sanity has no reason. -- Alexander Gordon Smith
There's a big difference between sanity and insanity. -- Megan Gallagher
He who can simulate sanity will be sane. -- Ovid
My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity. -- Gini Koch
...my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me. -- Maria V. Snyder
In an insane world, sanity made very little sense. -- Rachel Caine
What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness? -- Josephine Winslow Johnson
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity. -- George Santayana
Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity. -- Terry Pratchett
The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Stay optimistic to the point where people question your sanity. -- Matthew Barnett
It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity. -- Nelson DeMille
It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil. -- Daphne du Maurier
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. -- Gore Vidal
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. -- Mark Twain
People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin) -- Nancy Werlin
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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