Sanity Quotes

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  I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Clever

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.8, City Lights Books

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• I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

  Willem Dafoe

  Crazy, Mad, Age

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• Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Book, Firsts, Taught

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• You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

  Lance Bass

  Sense Of Humor

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• It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Lying, Reality, Mind

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• The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

  Jim Butcher

  People, Psychology, Mind

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Acceptance, Mad

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• I often question my sanity. Occasionally, it replies.

  Darynda Jones

  Darynda Jones (2014). “Seventh Grave and No Body”, p.8, St. Martin's Press

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• Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Evil, Good And Evil

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• We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mean, Reality, Insane

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.138, Ignatius Press

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• Stay optimistic to the point where people question your sanity.

  Matthew Barnett

  Optimistic, People, Stay Optimistic

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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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• The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

  Saint Augustine

  Lions, Moral, Truth Is

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  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  Carl Jung

  Funny, Depression, Witty

  Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

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• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Depression, Crazy, Insane World

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Depression, Insanity

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• Sanity’s a virginity of the mind

  Steve Aylett

  Mind, Virginity

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• Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

  Pam Houston

  Dog, Life Changing, Half

  Megan McMorris, Pam Houston (2006). “Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives”, p.8, Seal Press

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• Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

  Philip Larkin

  Unique, Affair, Poet

  "Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, Farrar Strauss, 1984.

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• One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

  Sean Wilentz

  Writing, Trying, Together

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

  Anne Sexton

  Crazy, Knowing, Kind

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• You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity.

  Yoko Ono

  Order, Emotion, Release

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2013.

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• So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Wall, Believe, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2009). “Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance”, p.82, Penguin

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