Sanity Quotes - Page 8

• Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, Solitude, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.81, North Atlantic Books

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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Painting

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

  Frank Ocean

  Artist, Men, Killers

  "Frank Ocean says he'll 'choose sanity,' won't press charges in Chris Brown fight" By Denise Quan, Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2013.

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• Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

  Daniel Goleman

  Confusing, Unruly, Needed

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• Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Health, Independence

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

  Francis Bacon

  Mean, Splendid, Existence

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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• I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

  Studs Terkel

  Peace

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Sleep, Writing

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

  Teju Cole

  Mean, Self, Stories

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.243, Faber & Faber

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• What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Insanity, Lines, Littles

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.618, The Floating Press

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• Here began countless days of hunting and snaring, fishing and gathering, roaming together through the woods, unloading our thoughts while we filled our game bags. This was the doorway to both sustenance and sanity. And we were each other's key.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hunting, Keys, Fishing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to wreck marriage, children and certainly one's health and sanity in pursuit of this.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Self, Ideas

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• As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Poetry Life & Times – An Interview With Author-Poet Aberjhani". Interview with Sara L. Russell, Robin Ouzman Hislop, www.artvilla.com. March 18, 2015.

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• Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Powerful, Integrity

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• To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.

  Tom Atlee

  Educational, Media, Political

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• Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ambition, Mean, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.81, Modern Library

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• We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

  Hank Stuever

  Sports, Pbs, Cooking

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

  Wallace Stegner

  Giving, Green, Littles

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• Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

  Mary Jane Ward

  Long Ago, Snakes, Insane Person

  Mary Jane Ward (1946). “The snake pit”

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• When you inhabit any of these three roles, you're reacting to fear of victimhood, loss of control, or loss of purpose. You're always looking outside yourself, to the people and circumstances of life, for a sense of safety, security, and sanity.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Inspirational, Loss, People

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• Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Pain, Tired

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.47, Random House

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• Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "How to give birth the Scientology way" by Carlene Bailey, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2006.

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