Sanity Quotes - Page 23

• From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

  R. D. Laing

  Pseudo, Patient, Madness

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that.

  Cathy Lamb

  People, Floating, Planets

  Cathy Lamb (2009). “Henry's Sisters”, p.161, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ancient Literature, Want, Virtue

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1960). “On the Classical Tradition”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

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• Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.

  Bill Struth

  Success, Being Strong, Football

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• Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.

  Carl Sandburg

  Destiny, America, Balance

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• When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Ignorance, Independent

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

  Lois Wyse

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Lois Wyse (1996). “Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration”

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• Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.

  Bill Gross

  Dollars, Creditors, Force

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• To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.

  George Stanley

  Integrity, Humility, Men

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• How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

  Nellie Bly

  Morning, Doctors, Sick

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.82, Nellie Bly

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• If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

  Paul Ryan

  Running, Fighting, Romance

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• There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Night, Common Sense

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• My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandmother, One Direction, Dramatic

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

  Sam Harris

  Crazy, Buddhism, Thinking

  "A Contemplative Science" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2006.

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• Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Tests, Chemotherapy

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• I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'

  Elayne Boosler

  Keys, Order, Car

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• When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Ana Castillo

  Suicide, Cancer, Political

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• All right, so there he is, our representative to the world, Mr. Western Civilization, in codpiece and pantyhose up there on the boards, firing away at the rapt groundlings with his blank verses, not less of a word-slinger and spellbinder than the Bard himself and therefore not to be considered too curiously on such matters as relevance, coherence, consistency, propriety, sanity, common decency.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Civilization, Common Decency, Consistency

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• You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.

  Gena Showalter

  Crazy, Thinking, Judging

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.258, Harlequin

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• Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Impossible, Found

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.

  Steve Landesberg

  Funny, Sarcastic, Truth

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

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• The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people. That's what gives rise to dictators. Avoid that at all costs. Stop it first on a personal level, and you will have contributed to world sanity as well as your own.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

  Kirby Wright

  Growing Up, Dark, Trying

  "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Forever, Lost

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

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• My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.

  Chloe Neill

  Jobs, House, Sanctity

  Chloe Neill (2011). “Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.121, Hachette UK

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