Quotes About Sanity

Mr. Murray had no doubt about Miss Minton's honesty. It was her sanity he was not sure about.

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

If you remind yourself everyday, where you are from, who you really are, what will happen in the future, and where you exactly stand, then you'll be sane.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.

Work is good," he said to himself. "Work is healthful and right. It keeps men sane and well balanced. No one with health and strength should step out of the ranks.

I was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn't know whether it was the caffeine, the warmth, or the simple fact of having someone else do something kind, but a soothing cup of tea in Harriet Dalrymple's cottage was fast becoming my lifeline to sanity.

He gazed at me, grave and straight. With a shock I realized he was perfectly sane. He had just fallen through, all at once, into a deeper layer of himself—as if he had crashed through rotten floorboards into the basement.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

Thanksgiving keeps us                              sane and alive.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

DoÄŸuÅŸtan bir yeteneÄŸin varsa ya da doÄŸuÅŸtan iyiliÄŸe eÄŸilimin varsa... Sonunda akl?n? kaç?r?yorsun.

Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

The madder the battle, the saner the peace.

Very well. I can wait. May I give you a bit of advice?" "Please do." "Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.