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Quotes About Sane

Goat made no move to get out. "Billy...this is nuts." "Yeah, well we left 'sane and normal' behind the first time Volker said 'zombie
~ Jonathan Maberry
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~ Erich Fromm
Lethal Predators: Psychopathic, Sadistic, and Sane" in Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You inside the Criminal Mind, 2004.
~ Bella DePaulo
There were stories in the territory, stories that could turn a sane man sour and a sour man worse.
~ Ben Marcus
Sometimes the flashback is so sudden, and so inappropriate to the surrounding circumstance, that the only sane reaction is foolish, uncontrollable laughter.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I am worried about the Tory party because give or take the odd spasm we have always been seen as pragmatic, sensible, good at our job, sane, reasonable and having the interests of the whole country. Now it is beginning to look like a Brexit sect.
~ Nicholas Soames
I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.
~ Sean Young
I moved a pillow aside... preferring the joyful company of the delusional to the miserable company of the sane.
~ Shalom Auslander
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
~ Rajneesh
Dancing music, music sad, Both together, sane and mad.
~ John Keats
Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your phone wondering why you can't think of anyone to call, stop getting your hair cut, stop working out, stop thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. Because tomorrow is today, and today is yesterday, and yesterday beat the shit out of you and brought you to your knees. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better
~ Jonathan Tropper
In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center who would always hold.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created Hell for those who don't believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I'm sorry, but... no. Wrong. You're wrong. That's an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don't you get it?
~ Bill Hicks
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
~ Margaret Anderson
To visit Yuggoth would drive any weak man mad—yet I am going there. The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious Cyclopean bridges—things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the things came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids—ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I have just returned from Boston it is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
~ Fred Allen
Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
~ Michael Moorcock
If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.
~ Linda Perhacs
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.
~ Meg Cabot
Accepting reality is touted and encouraged by most sane people.
~ Melody Beattie
Although you feel relief now, this is likely to be the source of many sleepless nights for you. You will lie awake, look upon your heart, and find it unlovely. You will be certain that (...) you are the greatest of monsters. This is a good thing; although you may forgive yourself, you must never come to think that your actions were in any way justifiable. But- (...) Being a sane, honorable human being is not always comfortable.
~ Mercedes Lackey
In a sane world, aid would be need-driven with any subsidies going to farmers in need just as food stamps are need-based.
~ Stuart Stevens
There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.
~ Mackenzie Phillips