Sane Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Normal

  Carol Plum-Ucci (2008). “The Body of Christopher Creed”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

  Andrew Young

  Intelligent, People, Moral

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• When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Madmen, Jackets

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.713, Library of America

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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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• Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

  William Faulkner

  Crazy, Men, Thinking

  William Faulkner (1955). “Faulkner's county: tales of Yoknapatawpha county”

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• That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Mad, Water

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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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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• Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Crazy, Lying, Fate

  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1976). “The Portable Cervantes”, p.427, Penguin

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• the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mass, Know How, Knows

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• If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Insanity, Enough

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

  W. G. Sebald

  Reading, Evening, Thanks

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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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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• Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

  George Orwell

  Cures, Knows, Do You Know

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• Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

  Rachel Caine

  Kids, Cutting, Towns

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.101, Allison & Busby

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• I was consumed by the mystery Edward presented. And more than a little obsessed by Edward himself. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wasn't as eager to escape Forks as I should be, as any normal, sane person would be.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stupid, Would Be, Littles

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• I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.

  Maureen Johnson

  I Like You, Mad, You Re Pretty

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• Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have Mencheres break out the invisible straitjacket again. I haven't gone crazy. I just didn't understand until now." He still looked like he was debating having Mencheres lay the power whammy on me, so I sat down by Kira in a very deliberate manner, folding my hands in my lap. There. Didn't I look calm and sane?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Crazy, Hands, Worry

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• One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving Up, Glowing, Evil

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• Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Men, Lessons, Lifetime

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Jun 07, 2016

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• Can I see some ID?" "WE DON'T HAVE ID," said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON'T USE ID...THERE. AND THAT'S WHY WE LOOK SO YOUNG. 'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN." Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug tried looking extra sane to even things out.

  Adam Rex

  Crazy, Looks, Use

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• I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Teaching, Knowledge, Men

  "Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey". Book by Andrew Mango, 1999.

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