Sane Quotes - Page 24

• He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

  Lora Leigh

  Real, Real Men, Men

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• Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in their company. You needed to grab their hair and clutch it like a drowner so they would pull you into their midst. Otherwise they, walking casually down the street towards you, almost about to wave, would leap over a wall and be gone for months.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Wall, Hands, People

  "The English Patient". Book by Michael Ondaatje, 1992.

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• National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Kings, Fighting, Army

  "The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories". Book by John V. Denson, p. 488, 1999.

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• The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

  Brenda Lee

  Children, Hate, Guy

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• I'll take care of my mother," he said grimly. "I love her, but she doesn't run my life." "Yeah, that's what we all say. You. Me. Lucy." She stabbed the stick into the dirt. "These are powerful women. They're sane, they're smart, they rule their worlds, and they love us ferociously. A potent combination that makes it touch to pretend they're normal mothers.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Running, Powerful

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• My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk.

  Darynda Jones

  Eye, Cookies, Odd

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.30, Macmillan

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• People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Mad, Religion

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

  Hilary Putnam

  Believe, Subjectivity, Should

  Hilary Putnam (1987). “The many faces of realism”, Open Court Pub Co

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• When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

  Mark Twain

  Insane, Majority, Asylums

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• She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete

  Alethea Kontis

  Laughing, Needed, Feels

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Race, Made, Conversation

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• Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love Is, Authority, Messy

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Travel, Jobs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixtyeight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for President. I’m the only sane one in the family.

  Billy Carter

  Mother, Running, Brother

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• A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane.
  They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.

  Rick Mercer

  Annoyed, Important, Example

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• I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.

  Don Pendleton

  Lonely, War, Loneliness

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• Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way forward is to grow food for humans rather than to feed it to farmed animals.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Animal, Way Forward, Doe

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• Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

  James P. Hogan

  People, Needs, Normal

  James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books

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• I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ideas

  "Your elusive creative genius". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Age, Looks, Flesh

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.199, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

  Glen Duncan

  Cancer, Years, Ifs And

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Fashion, Way, Rational

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• No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Insanity, Form

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.811, Jazzybee Verlag

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• People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really values. The same thing applies to money that applies to time. I make a practice of watching what people do, never what they say. Whatever is important, to anyone sane, he will make a place for it; people live out their values. Values are different in this respect from "ideals," which are typically vain and effete and thus exist mostly for the sake of promoting self-delusions.

  Kenny Smith

  Time, Philosophy, Self

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• This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Land, Shelter

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.79, New Society Publishers

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