Sanity Quotes - Page 21

• I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

  Anthony Storr

  Bipolar, Lines, Want

  " Anthony Storr, the face of psychiatry, dies" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001.

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• We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Believe, Teaching

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• To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Political

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

  Anthony Trollope

  Madness, Remnants, Precipice

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.321, e-artnow

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• Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

  John Irving

  Crazy, People, Giving

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

  J. K. Rowling

  Worry, Order Of The Phoenix, Sane

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• And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath my feet and became biting snakes, similes fled from my grasp like frightened deer, taking all meaning with them. All was alien, and amidst the hanging, entangling creepers of this foreign grammar, all sound became a cacophany. I feared for myself, for my health and sanity, but then I thought of my purpose, of where I was and who I was, of pain and I pressed on.

  Vikram Chandra

  Pain, Snakes, Feet

  Vikram Chandra (2011). “Red Earth and Pouring Rain”, p.277, Faber & Faber

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• Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

  Julian Barnes

  Ironic, Devil, Irony

  Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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• Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Love You

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• In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.

  Sue Kaufman

  Women, Lying, Home

  Sue Kaufman (1974). “Falling Bodies”, Doubleday Books

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• Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

  H. Beam Piper

  Disease, Contagious, Seems

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• Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

  Mark Lawrence

  Character, Humanity, Tragedy

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.200, Penguin

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• I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

  Nellie Bly

  Doctors, Asking, Made

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.85, Golgotha Press

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• As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Emotional, May, Causes

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• To be able to forget means sanity.

  Jack London

  Mean, Able, Forget

  Jack London (2014). “Jack London's Science Fiction (Deluxe Annotated)”, p.474

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• What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?

  Marshall Ulrich

  Running, Dream, Pain

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.117, Penguin

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• Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

  James Gleick

  Player, Skills, Mad

  James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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• I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.

  William Brinkley

  Book, Character, Mean

  William Brinkley (2013). “The Last Ship: A Novel”, p.65, Penguin

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• "It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

  Alan Watts

  Technology, Animal, Vegetables

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• We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

  Jim Butcher

  Next, Reason, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.112, Penguin

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• The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Views, People, Helping

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.

  David Bain

  Honesty, Found, Accurate

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• Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

  Robert Southey

  Peace, Order, Cities

  "The Doctor, Etc".

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• Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Team, Sixteen

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.282, Lulu.com

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• The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

  Douglas Adams

  Depression, Giving, Mad

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

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