Quotes and Sayings About Sanity
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
-- Adam Phillips -
Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
-- Agnes Repplier -
Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
-- Alan Cooper -
And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
...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 -
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
-- Aristotle -
You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
-- Barry Hughart -
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
-- Bill W. -
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 -
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself.
-- David Bain -
Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
-- Diahann Carroll -
Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
-- E. M. Forster -
Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
-- Edith Wharton -
Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.
-- Emilie Autumn -
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
-- Erich Fromm -
Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.
-- Euripides -
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
-- Gelett Burgess -
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
-- Georges Bataille -
Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
-- H. Beam Piper -
and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
