Sanity Quotes - page 2

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not. (Robert M. Pirsig)
The main thing for me is to just live life with my family and friends. They treat me like Leo, not like 'Leonardo, Master Thespian.' That's all I need to keep my sanity. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
All sanity depends on this that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. View quote
Doris Lessing
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. View quote
Bobby Fischer
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. View quote
Herman Melville
... Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it. View quote
David Weber
To recognize one's own insanity, is of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Only, as long as we‘re going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value. View quote
S. S. Van Dine
For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. View quote
Mark Twain
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent. (Larry Wall)
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. View quote
Tony Blair
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. View quote
Nellie Bly
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life. View quote
Sean O`Casey
Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow. View quote
Brandon Mull
At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity. View quote
Candace Bushnell
There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference. View quote
Karen Chance
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. View quote
George Weinberg
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now. (Dorothea Tanning)
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being. View quote
James Earl Jones
Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before. View quote
Tite Kubo
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. View quote
Luke Evans
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet. View quote
Audrina Patridge