Sane Quotes - Page 13

• There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Mad, Wicked

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• Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Intelligent, Others Opinions

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.254, Univ of California Press

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• He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Heart, Tragedy

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• Hello, Officer? Can you help me? My dad got turned into a zombie. You know, we’ve been travelling around getting rid of things that aren’t real, and this time they hit back. I really need someplace to stay – but can you make sure I have some holy water or something wherever it is? And some silver-jacketed bullets? That’d be sweet. Yeah, that’d be totally cool. Thanks. And while you’re at it, can you tell the guys with the straitjackets that I’m really sane? That would help.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sweet, Dad, Real

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lili St. Crow, books.google.ru. May 14,2009.

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• Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Heart, Hands

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• We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.

  Simon R. Green

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

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• You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

  David Markson

  Life, Mad, Anxiety

  David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”

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• I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Teaching, Knowledge, Men

  "Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey". Book by Andrew Mango, 1999.

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• The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Reality, Accepted, Penalties

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

  W. G. Sebald

  Reading, Evening, Thanks

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• Remember that day you said you loved me? Remember that? See, you could do that because you're basically a sane person, who grew up in a loving, sane family. You could take a risk like that. But in my family we didn't go around saying we loved each other. We went around screaming at each other. So what do I do, when you say you love me? I go and undermine it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Risk, Remember, My Family

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• If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Insanity, Enough

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mass, Know How, Knows

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• Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Crazy, Lying, Fate

  Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra (1976). “The Portable Cervantes”, p.427, Penguin

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• I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, Said

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• The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

  Christopher Moore

  Doors, Dragons, Nuts

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• 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

  Kind, Possession, Command

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• Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Insanity, Majority

  "Much madness is divinest sense" l. 1 (ca. 1863)

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• You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

  George Orwell

  Eye, Two, Trying

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1346, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Laughing, Half, Mouths

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• Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Men, Ideas

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• It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whisper from the past. Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Writing, Past

  Margaret Atwood (2013). “MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy”, p.282, Anchor

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• If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Running, Love Is

  "The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.

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• From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, Criminals, Problem

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• But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Suicidal, People

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