Quotes of: Sane-people Keyword

I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.

Life

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

Will Oldham

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space...

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

Afterlife

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

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Killosophy

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Music was a college attendee's survival essential; he'd need that to keep himself sane.

Nothing Left to Lose

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

The Pillars of Creation

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Practical Demonkeeping

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

Princess Diana

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Philip K. Dick

For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

P. J. O'Rourke

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Taylor Swift

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I in order to stay sane.

Lena Dunham

We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

Madeleine M. Kunin

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

George Osborne

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

J. G. Ballard

In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded...

1984

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked a...

Night Watch

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we co...

Rebecca