Sanity Quotes - Page 24

• I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

  Ruth Glick

  Jobs, Hero, Best Job

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• Worse than madness. Sanity.

  William Golding

  Madness

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• 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

  Michael Sheen

  Real, Differences, Life And Death

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

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• You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody?" "Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader." He nodded. "Probably safer for your sanity.

  Sylvia Day

  Hot, May, Not Sure

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.325, Penguin

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• But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Book, Thrill, Madness

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• Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

  Tite Kubo

  Sorry, Useless Things, Bleach

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• My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

  Emma Forrest

  Mean, Years, People

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• Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Vanity, Jester, Despite

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2012). “This Isn't What It Looks Like: The Secret Series”, p.87, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.

  Anthony Marra

  Cutting, Earth, Want

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• I swear love is the most powerful emotion thats ever existed. It owns people, devours them, tears them open and bleeds them out from the inside, making them defenseless to everything. Hate is the same way. Hate takes your levelheadedness and even your sanity away from you.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Powerful, Hate, Love Is

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• Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

  Shane Koyczan

  Addiction, Drug, Becoming

  "To This Day". Spoken word poem by Shane Koyczan (from the album "Remembrance Year"), 2012.

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• Sanity - a trick of agreement

  Allen Ginsberg

  Agreement, Tricks

  Allen Ginsberg, Viktor Sosnora (1993). “Kaddish”

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• It's suspiciously quiet in here, and there's a Tod shaped dent in the bean bag. For the sake of both my sanity and my temper, I'm going to pretend I can't tell that you're in his lap, so could you pretend that this is still my house and you are still my daughter, and I'm within my parental rights to kick your boyfriend out after 11:00 p.m.?

  Rachel Vincent

  Daughter, Rights, House

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2011.

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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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• I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Sometimes

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.269, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

  George Orwell

  Dust, Years, Knowing

  George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity’s sake? Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. “I do what I can.” Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. “You are a brave man.

  Gail Carriger

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• ...my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Holiday, Threatened

  Maria V. Snyder (2011). “Touch of Power”, p.247, MIRA

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• The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.

  Richard Nelson

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell over the edge.' Karen said. 'I jumped,' Walter added, 'And I can't seem to climb back up.

  Bryan Davis

  Mother, Sorry, Character

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• Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

  George Orwell

  Thinking

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• She wasn't about to go down that road herself, which was a testament to her spiritual awakening and her commitment to sanity. It was a real blessing that she didn't follow me, because oftentimes, people go out together and one comes back and the other doesn't. Or both of them never do.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, Real, Commitment

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• She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

  Sarah MacLean

  Jealous, Long, Water

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• Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary.

  Brandon Mull

  Believe, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Get Well, Healing

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

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