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Quotes About Sanity

...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer." Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.
~ Anne Mallory
Where sanity is there God is.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
~ Plato
Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.
~ Jonathan Maberry
And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God... must it be sane?
~ Lucien LaCroix
You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.
~ Rick Yancey
When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.
~ Tim Duncan
I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.
~ Wayne Coyne
I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.
~ Colin Fletcher
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
~ Martha Gellhorn
The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.
~ C. S. Lewis
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.
~ Robert Southey
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.
~ Gore Vidal
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
~ Virginia Woolf
Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.
~ David Bain
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
~ Wallace Stegner
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
~ Silvia Cartwright
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
~ Mark Lawrence, Prince of Fools
Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.
~ Lionel Suggs
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
~ Terry Pratchett, Making Money
You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.
~ Tom Upton, Vanished
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
~ Ric Ocasek