Sane Quotes - Page 25

• Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Balance, Trying

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• The majority is always sane.

  Larry Niven

  Majority

  Larry Niven (2014). “Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One”, p.212, Macmillan

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• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  Edward Bond

  Men, Mad, Awkward

  Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black

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• The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

  Henry Lawson

  Cutting, Men, Drunk

  Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”

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• Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Giving Up, People, Regulation

  Hacker News comment, news.ycombinator.com. Apr 12, 2012.

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• According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

  Leo Strauss

  Wise, Ignorance, Issues

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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• No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Madness

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

  William Osler

  Wise, Men, Fifty

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.324, Duke University Press

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• Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Forever, Sun

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.422, Penguin

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• Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Self, Hands, Discipline

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.

  Martha Beck

  Crazy, Believe, Home

  Martha Beck (2005). “Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith”, p.284, Broadway Books

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• When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

  Vikram Chandra

  People, Normal, Sometimes

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• This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, People, Religion

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• Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Grief, Men

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• Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insanity, World, Today

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 17, 2011

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• Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

  W. H. Auden

  Mad, Acting, Actors

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• Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Knowing, Ass

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

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• Music keeps people sane.

  Zoot Sims

  People

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• Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

  Doug Benson

  Reading, Want, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Men, Construction

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• People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Indulge In, People

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• When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to go ka-boom any minute, and the handful of us who survived would be walking in a nuclear winter wonderland. Now anyone with a few thousand bucks and an unlisted number in Islamabad in his Rolodex can get a nuke, and the Left couldn't care less.

  Mark Steyn

  Winter, Numbers, Wonderland

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• Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Writing, Erratic

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• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, School, Performing

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• When you are starting a business or going down any challenging endeavor, you are bound to encounter challenges. You are going to hit many roadblocks and obstacles. These are obstacles that would make any sane person want to throw in the towel and quit. If you want your business to succeed, you can’t do that (duh).

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Encounters, Duh

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