Sanity Quotes - Page 10

• For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

  Sebastian Barry

  Secret, Want, Fortune

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Form

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• This was the door to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

  Suzanne Collins

  Keys, Doors, Gale

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• This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, Hygiene, Long

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• Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

  Adam Phillips

  Blind Spots, Limits, Recognition

  Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com

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• I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Interesting, Wish, Looks

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• The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.

  Herbert Ratner

  Children, Educational, Love Is

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• Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Neurosis, Permanent, Temporary

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• What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Years, Mystical Experiences, Today

  Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.41, New World Library

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• Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Honesty, Pain, Humility

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.48, Modern Library

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• There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.

  Roseanne Barr

  Darkness, Mind, Chasms

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• Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Genius, Madness

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• He who can simulate sanity will be sane.

  Ovid

  Sane, Simulate

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• A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

  Rene Dubos

  Religious, Religion, Essentials

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• Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Eccentric, Failing

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flames, Facts, Spirit

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• The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Health, Men, Roots

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• Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

  Sean O'Casey

  Humor, Honor, Lows

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• sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

  Corra May Harris

  People, Achievement, Opinion

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• Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mean, Fancy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

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• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Kings, Princess

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fear, Lying, Night

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Mar 21, 2015

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• Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

  Gelett Burgess

  Progress, World, Crank

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

  Alain de Botton

  Tools, Literature, Littles

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• Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.182, Crown Archetype

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