Sane Quotes - Page 3

• Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Noble, Deeds, Chaos

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2009). “Leviathan”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Children, Mean

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• That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

  Erich Fromm

  People, Doe, Sanity

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Struggle, Fantasy, Discworld

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• It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Long, Healthy, Down And

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Tasks

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• You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Lonely, Couple

  "Dylan Moran: What It Is". Video, 2009.

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• It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be incredibly sane and self-aware to function in relatively insane environments.

  Jenny Lawson

  Mom, Grandmother, Thinking

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, Important, Messages

  "Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son?". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1990.

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• He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Heart, Tragedy

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• I was in college - Carnegie Mellon, which is one of the reasons Pittsburgh was appealing to me - and I personally feel that whole world of what we used to call "college radio" is a big part of what kept me sane through a period where I stopped dating, I felt like a freak, I felt like no girl would like me. You know, a very adolescent response to losing my hair. I turned to obsessing about The Replacements and The Smiths and R.E.M. and getting further into The Velvet Underground. People who, in my sheltered suburban life, I knew of, but didn't know fully.

  Greg Mottola

  Girl, College, People

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• When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Thinking, Two, Insane

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• I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Average Joe, Mad

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• I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.

  Roseanne Barr

  Talking, People, Kind

  "Presidential hopeful Roseanne Barr lays out platform on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2012.

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• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Order

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• The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Reality, Accepted, Penalties

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Long, Mentor

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• I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Faith, Believe, Brotherhood

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• We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

  John Updike

  Sociable

  Christian Science Monitor, March 5, 1979.

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• The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

  Steven Wright

  Perspective, Insane, Trying

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• Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

  will.i.am

  Mind, Music Is, Therapy

  "The Voice judge Will.i.am tells of his battle with ADHD" by Natalie Edwards, www.mirror.co.uk. April 28, 2013.

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• The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Differences, People, Mad

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.176, Vintage

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• I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk.

  Terry Pratchett

  Talking, Tree, Courses

  "The Light Fantastic (Discworld, Book 2)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1986.

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• --Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

  Donald Barthelme

  Fighting, Thinking, Order

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• There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Would Be, Want

  Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).

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