Sanity Quotes - Page 9

• One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

  Trent Reznor

  Compassion, Two, Greed

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• The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

  John Astin

  World, Normal, Mental Illness

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• The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.

  Janet Frame

  Discovery, Tree, Brain

  Janet Frame (2010). “Towards Another Summer”, p.105, Counterpoint Press

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• how can he love me then not? He went,he ran. And I cannot bring him back. Yet I left the door metaphorically wide open, hoping he'd come back and bang on it proclaiming, "I want to be here with you. Always." Soon I'm going to have to shutit. For my safety and my sanity. Let go. I don't want to. Won't letting go be just that - letting go? Giving up? Admitting failure? Admitting that it is really, truly over?

  Freya North

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Doors

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• Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Looks, Defenseless

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• It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Devil

  "Fictional character: George Fortescu Maximillian 'Maxim' de Winter". "Rebecca", 1940.

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• Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

  Sabeer Bhatia

  Tests, Risk-taking

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• The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Real, Sleep

  Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Madness

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.95, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Vacation, Cities, Bloodlust

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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• Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very situations and thoughts and feelings that make the novel worthwhile, the worse I feel, and the more likely I am to be severely depressed when the book is finished. There is no avoiding this: it is the result of attempting to tell all you know, to reach for the stars, to write what matters.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Book, Character

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• And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

  Michael Moorcock

  Soul, Attention, Stories

  Michael Moorcock (2010). “Elric Swords and Roses”, p.139, Del Rey

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• The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Strong, Jobs, Responsibility

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Blessing, Routine, Looks

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• Sanity? Sorry, I don't ever remember having something like that before.

  Tite Kubo

  Sorry, Remember

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• ...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

  Anne Mallory

  Kissing, Somewhere Else, Awful

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• they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

  Cecelia Ahern

  Worry

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• People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

  Nancy Werlin

  Cousin, Nuts, People

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• Life, this endless conversation with yourself. Silent in sanity, audible in madness.

  Zohra Sehgal

  Madness, Silent, Conversation

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• Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.

  Brandon Mull

  Risk, Way, Causes

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• Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

  Emilie Autumn

  Enemy, Awareness

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• It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

  Nelson DeMille

  Scary, Moments, Temporary

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• I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Heroism, Adults

  "The Unfinished" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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• That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Insanity, Madness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.100, Penguin

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• Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

  Rachel Caine

  Beach, Adventure, Morganville Vampires

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.57, Allison & Busby

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