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Quotes About Sane

I like keeping people guessing. I like to have fun with them wondering if I'm sane or not.
~ Tom Green
One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
~ Mark Thomas
I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.
~ Katherine Jenkins
I'm eccentric, yes, but I'm not insane.
~ Samuel R. Delany
A glib wisdom holds that people like this just don't want relationships. They have "problems with intimacy." But the salient fact is: These were relationships. In Tommy's case, in Gary's, and in several others they were relationships that lasted years. Intimacy for most of us is a condition that endures, however often repeated, for minutes or for hours. And these all had their many intimate hours. But, like all sane relationships, they also had limits.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is best of all to be sane and happy.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
~ Jimmy Wales
We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.
~ John Wyndham
Jemma got up and perched on the arm of Isidore's chair. "Marriage is a great destroyer of logic, but I do think it's a benefit to begin with a sane husband.
~ Eloisa James
If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.
~ Amanda Peet
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
~ George Orwell
the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
~ George Orwell
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
~ J. G. Ballard
Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you?
~ Sarah Waters
No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
~ Saul Bellow
Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.
~ David Bowie
I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane
~ Nicole Polizzi
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.
~ Tori Amos
When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.
~ Mark Twain
What an ass you are!" Satan said. "Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
~ Mark Twain
Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.
~ Arundhati Roy
Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones—a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.
~ Arundhati Roy
It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.
~ Stephen King