Sane Quotes - Page 18

• My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

  Herman Melville

  Mean, Mad, Insanity

  Herman Melville (1983). “The best of Herman Melville”, Book Sales

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• But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

  Apuleius

  Insanity, Existence, Blindness

  Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics

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• Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

  Robert Boswell

  Covering, World, Definitions

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• The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Differences, Insane, Locks

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

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• I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Thinking, Achievement, Proud

  "The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words" by Bill Adler, (p. 5, 232), 2004.

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• In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

  Mark Twain

  Night, Race, Age

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.46, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the number one reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane; I can deal with whatever’s coming at me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Husband, Eye, Years

  "Jada Pinkett Smith reveals secrets behind her 105lb body and foreplay with husband Will Smith" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. December 30, 2014.

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• Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

  Dan Brown

  Nuts

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!

  Michael Morpurgo

  Crazy, War, Fighting

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane.

  Stephen King

  Happiness, Prayer, Dark

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• Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

  David R. Brower

  Moving, Land, Garbage

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• My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

  Barry Bonds

  Crazy, Trying, Life Is

  "In Interview, Bonds Says His Life Is a `Shambles'". articles.latimes.com. March 28, 2006.

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• Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Sex, Fun

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• Persons living in this modern world who do not know the basic facts that determine their very existence, functioning, and surroundings, are living in a dream world. Such persons are, in a very real sense, not sane.

  Gerald Holton

  Dream, Real, Facts

  Gerald James Holton (1988). “Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein”, p.464, Harvard University Press

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• Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

  Luis Villalobos

  Courage, Crazy, Individuality

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• On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

  Christopher Meloni

  Love, Funny, Secret

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• Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

  Jose Marti

  Love Is, Amor

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• I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Glowing, Sitting, Neon

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Should Have, Years, People

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• Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

  Jules Feiffer

  Crush, Advice, Patterns

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• Somebody has to be sane during regular business hours, and it's not going to be me, missy.

  Darynda Jones

  Hours

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• The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, America, Foundation

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• Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Exercise, Sea, Infinite

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Thinking, Drug Use

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Clever, Artist, Thinking

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