Sanity Quotes - Page 22

• She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Home, Space

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Knowledge”, p.26, Penguin

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• There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Decision, Different, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

  Saul Bellow

  Crazy, Mad, Age

  1959 Henderson The Rain King, ch.3.

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• Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

  Julia Cameron

  Lying, Survival, Attention

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• Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Return, Cases

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.9, Penguin

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• The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Jobs, Responsibility, Simple

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

  Teju Cole

  Hero, Mean, Self

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• As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Two, Letters, Six

  "The Author", Summer 1944.

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• In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.

  Laura Bohannan

  Laughter, Tragedy, Essentials

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• Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

  Paul Merton

  People, World, Way

  "I think I'm sane". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.

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• I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

  Arabella Weir

  Teacher, Opportunity, Luxury

  "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Self Confidence, Pride, Hallmark

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• The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Ego, Reason

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

  Joan Didion

  Grief, Interesting, Craziness

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• For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Revenge, Ordinary, World

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• Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome.

  Bill Struth

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Stay Strong

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• it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Struggle, Survival

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

  Lincoln Hall

  Adventure, Sacrifice, Safety

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• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hero, Book, Mean

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• Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Art, Book, Breathing

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• For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

  Luke Evans

  Self, People, Creative

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• Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

  Alan Cooper

  Survival, Computer, Subtle

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• Sanity is a compromise.

  Aleister Crowley

  Compromise

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.37, Weiser Books

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• Doubt tempers belief with sanity.

  Barbara Kruger

  Doubt, Belief, Temper

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.223, MIT Press

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• [While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Cartoon, Dignity, Kind

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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