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Quotes About Sanity

But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
~ Haruki Murakami
Everything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it … But maybe that's the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
~ Haruki Murakami
No existe en ninguna parte del mundo real nada tan bello como las fantasías que alberga quien ha perdido la cordura.
~ Haruki Murakami
We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.
~ Haruki Murakami
Reality recedes until you can't tell who's sane and who's not.
~ Haruki Murakami
Ordinary he was insane, But he had lucid moments when he was merely Stupid.
~ Heinrich Heine
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
~ Anthony Storr
To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.
~ Margaret Trudeau
Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.
~ Don Kardong
How to dance in blood and remain sane?
~ Sonia Sanchez
Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
~ Stacy Mantle
If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
~ Stanley Rous
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. — RITA MAE BROWN
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
It's lonely at midnight in the nuthouse.
~ Stephanie S. Tolan
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
I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.
~ Sarah Waters
One person's crazyness is another person's reality
~ Tim Burton
I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.
~ Stephanie Ericsson
As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?
~ Michael Chabon
As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.
~ Michael Chabon
She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.
~ Michael Cunningham
sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and foremost, of one's own convictions.
~ Michael Cunningham
She will write and write. She will finish this book, then write another. She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.
~ Michael Cunningham