Sanity Quotes - Page 8

• Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Soul, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press

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• Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.

  Brandon Mull

  Risk, Way, Causes

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• Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

  Emilie Autumn

  Enemy, Awareness

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• It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

  Nelson DeMille

  Scary, Moments, Temporary

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• I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Heroism, Adults

  "The Unfinished" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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• That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Insanity, Madness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.100, Penguin

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• Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

  Rachel Caine

  Beach, Adventure, Morganville Vampires

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.57, Allison & Busby

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• For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

  Sebastian Barry

  Secret, Want, Fortune

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

  Cecelia Ahern

  Worry

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• Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose. The green world is his sacred center. In moments of sanity he must still seek refuge there.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Men, Green World

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.8, Library of America

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• My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Insanity, Lines, Littles

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.618, The Floating Press

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• I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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• We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Nature, Mean

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.333, Modern Library

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• There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

  Megan Gallagher

  Differences, Insanity, Bigs

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, People, Impossible

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• World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

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• At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Form

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Country, Flags

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.127, Counterpoint

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• Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

  Sabeer Bhatia

  Tests, Risk-taking

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• I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Laughter, War

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• Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

  Winston Smith

  Truth, Mad, Political

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• As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Poetry Life & Times – An Interview With Author-Poet Aberjhani". Interview with Sara L. Russell, Robin Ouzman Hislop, www.artvilla.com. March 18, 2015.

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• Why don't you make a contibution to my sanity, and do the one thing you never seem to be able to do... SHUT UP!!!

  Triple H

  Wwe, Able, Shut Up

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