Sane Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

  David Markson

  Life, Mad, Anxiety

  David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”

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• We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.

  Simon R. Green

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

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• Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” "I’m a Gypsy,” Cam replied matter-of-factly. “Of course I believe in ghosts.” “Only half Gypsy. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational.” “The other half is Irish,” Cam said a touch apologetically. “Christ,” St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Believe, Half, Matter

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• It's so nice to have sane friends. I imagine.

  Michele Jaffe

  Nice, Imagine

  Michele Jaffe (2009). “Kitty Kitty”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Heart, Hands

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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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• He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Sleep, Order, Law

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Rebecca”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Suicidal, People

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• Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Men, Ideas

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• Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise - the traffic in the head. So many thoughts - trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Airplane, Thinking

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• While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

  Horace

  Latin, Joy, Compare

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• Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

  Cecelia Ahern

  Children, Growing Up, Needs

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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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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• Hello, Officer? Can you help me? My dad got turned into a zombie. You know, we’ve been travelling around getting rid of things that aren’t real, and this time they hit back. I really need someplace to stay – but can you make sure I have some holy water or something wherever it is? And some silver-jacketed bullets? That’d be sweet. Yeah, that’d be totally cool. Thanks. And while you’re at it, can you tell the guys with the straitjackets that I’m really sane? That would help.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sweet, Dad, Real

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lili St. Crow, books.google.ru. May 14,2009.

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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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• There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

  Denis Diderot

  Mad, Psychological, Harm

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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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• 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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• 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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• He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Long, Broken

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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