Sane Quotes - Page 14

• --Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

  Donald Barthelme

  Fighting, Thinking, Order

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• You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

  George Orwell

  Trying, Easy, Harder

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.539, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Too Late, Firsts

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• The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mad, Helping, Great Divorce

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• Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

  Sarah Kane

  Beautiful, Lying, Insanity

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.229, A&C Black

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• Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Space, Teeth

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.702, Del Rey

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• I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

  Jay-Z

  Exercise, Thinking, Way

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• The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Doors, Self, Sky

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• If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you.

  Rajneesh

  People, Mad, Healthy

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• When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I am just your ordinary,
  average every day sane psycho,
  supergoddess.

  Liz Phair

  Average, Ordinary, Psycho

  Song: Extraordinary, Album: Liz Phair

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• Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

  David Bowie

  Time, Sunrise, Battle

  Song: Aladdin Sane, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973

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• Without doubt you are not sane.

  Tage Danielsson

  Doubt, Atheism

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• No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

  Al Smith

  Christmas, Sea, Santa

  Quoted in New Outlook, Dec. 1933

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• People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.

  Miley Cyrus

  People, Google, Stay Happy

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Insanity, Insane

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• To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Mad, Brain

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Feelings, Conflict

  Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1912. "The life of Bertrand Russell". Book by Ronald W. Clark, p. 174, 1975.

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• Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

  Michael Monroe

  Crazy

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• Every day spend at least an hour in a forest to stay healthy, and much more than this, to stay sane in this insane world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Insane World, Healthy, Forests

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• I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?

  Alyson Richman

  Mother, Art, Children

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• Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

  Janet C. Long

  Depression, Crazy, Littles

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

  Edna Ferber

  Philosophy, Food, Eye

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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• Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Reality, Irrelevance, Culture

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• My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Names, Mad, Hallucinations

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