Sane Quotes - Page 15

• Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

  Anne Sexton

  Crazy, Worry, Insane

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• -I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Doubt, Matter, Not Sure

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• You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

  Graham Chapman

  Country, People, Today

  "Monty Python's Flying Circus". TV Series, 1969 - 1974.

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• Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

  Jim Butcher

  Smart, Stupid, Camels

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• I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Half, Facts

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.597, University of Illinois Press

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• My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Names, Mad, Hallucinations

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• If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you.

  Rajneesh

  People, Mad, Healthy

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• The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Doors, Self, Sky

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• Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Space, Teeth

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.702, Del Rey

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• Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

  Sarah Kane

  Beautiful, Lying, Insanity

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.229, A&C Black

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• By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Too Late, Firsts

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• Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

  David Bowie

  Time, Sunrise, Battle

  Song: Aladdin Sane, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

  Edna Ferber

  Philosophy, Food, Eye

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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• I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Believe, Men

  "Credo". Book by Erich Fromm, 1965.

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• The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability -- consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Philosophy, Advice

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• War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Feelings, Conflict

  Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1912. "The life of Bertrand Russell". Book by Ronald W. Clark, p. 174, 1975.

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• To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Mad, Brain

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Insanity, Insane

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• People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Google, Stay Happy

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and tried to hurry dawn along with gunfire; now John Wilkes Booth heard the clock strike, and he tried with gunfire to restore the darkness. Each man stood outside the human community, directed by voices the sane do not hear, and each kept history from going logically... The line from Harper's Ferry to Ford's Theater is a red thread binding the immense disorder of the Civil War into an irrational sort of coherence.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Night, Men

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• Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

  Diane Sawyer

  Smart, Four, Needs

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• Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Important, Tasks, Use

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.39, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom - and the right of contract, which is one of the main functions of economic freedom. Therefore, even under Capitalism, so long as the old principles were remembered it was possible to recall the principles whereby Society had once been sane and well ordered.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Rights, Long, Principles

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• On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

  Christopher Meloni

  Love, Funny, Secret

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