Sane Quotes - Page 6

• I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

  Emmy Rossum

  People, Trying, Littles

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• Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I think I just need that balance to feel sane myself — you know?

  Miranda July

  Art, Thinking, People

  YouTube Channel "Submarine Channel"/"Pretty Cool People Interviews - Miranda July", www.youtube.com. November 19, 2007.

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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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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

  Edward Abbey

  Play, Common Sense, Healthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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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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• Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

  Michael Moorcock

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Michael Moorcock (2009). “Duke Elric”, p.161, Del Rey

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• You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Thinking, Deception, Musician

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• People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of ... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

  Michael Palin

  Struggle, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn’t exactly help me stay sane,” I said. “Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason,” said Becks. “That ship has sailed.

  Mira Grant

  Crazy, Names, Ships

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

  Ashley Judd

  Success, Spiritual, Morning

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• Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insane, Becoming, Knows

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.41, 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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• From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, Criminals, Problem

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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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• Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mad, Crooks, Puritan

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.

  Rick Yancey

  Men, Order, Essence

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Men, People

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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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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• Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.

  Louise Rennison

  Laughter, Way, Reassuring

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• In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

  Doris Lessing

  Block, People, Looks

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in a loving, sane family. You could take a risk like that. But in my family we didn't go around saying we loved each other. We went around screaming at each other. So what do I do, when you say you love me? I go and undermine it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Risk, Remember, My Family

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• Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Crazy, Fiction, Safe

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