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
In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too — Saul Bellow
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. — Waylon Jennings
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R. D. Lang
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. — Unknown Author
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. — Hermann Hesse
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree. — George Bernard Shaw
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are. — Robert Aickman
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. — Anthony Burgess
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. — Paul Valery
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. — R. D. Laing
Keeping Sane Image Quotes
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Keeping My Sanity Quotes
Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here. — Bessie Head
I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance. — Luis Miguel
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. — Willem Dafoe
Always behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like hell underwater.
I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity. — Alicia Sacramone
I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered. — Naturi Naughton
As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation. — Anthony Green
Fear is what stops you. Courage is what keeps you going.
Yoga has enriched my life...It is a great way to offset the downsides of touring by bringing much-needed peace and sanity into what can be a hectic life. Like music, yoga is a journey - one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don't see an end to it. — Sting
Staying Sane Quotes
I've always said, 'Eat clean to stay fit, have a burger to stay sane,’ — Gigi Hadid
Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time. — Lisel Mueller
Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart. — Haruki Murakami
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane. — Douglas Adams
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world. — Maxine Kumin
People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself. — Miley Cyrus
3 things to keep private: Your love. Your income. Your next move.
My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane. — Barry Bonds
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. — Jorge Garcia
It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on. — Maurice Sendak
If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it. — Linda Perhacs
When you say you are from Nepal, people always ask you if you've seen Everest. And I had to say no. I felt like I had to go and do this, just for my sanity. — Gary Brecka
For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it. — Jonathan Keltz
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Work can be done at a pace that suits my sanity rather than one that supports costly overhead. — Paul Jarvis
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens. — Martha Gellhorn
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal. — Mary Baker Eddy
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work. — Kiri Te Kanawa
When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity. — David Sheff
I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
History is the same thing over and over again. — Woody Allen
Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things. — Julia Stiles
I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check? — Keira Knightley
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it. — Zoot Sims
This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy. — George Michael
I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Love is the only thing that keeps me sane. — Sue Townsend
I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real. — Reese Witherspoon
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad. — Edward Bond
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane. — Eckhart Tolle
If all things keep changing, how can you become sane? — Jacque Fresco
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut. — Dean Koontz
Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance. — Andrew Solomon
Life is love, heartache and strain,
Yet the strength to overcome it all keeps me sane. — O.C.
When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone. — Tim Duncan
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse. — Clifford Whittingham Beers
Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace. — Sayings
A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane.
They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction. — Rick Mercer
I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane. — Jay-Z
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane. — Jonathan Lethem
Theater helps people keep sane. — Vanessa Redgrave
Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling. — Bertrand Russell
When my husband of almost 20 years can’t take his eyes off me? That’s amazing. But the number one reason I go to the gym is because it keeps me sane; I can deal with whatever’s coming at me. — Jada Pinkett Smith
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies. — Ashley Judd
Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there. — will.i.am
I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little. — Emily Rossum
I've always been kind of picky because I've always been interested in lots of different things. I chose to take three years off and go to school, and that helped keep me sane. Hollywood can make you crazy, if all you're thinking about is your next job. — Jordana Brewster
Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world. — Paulo Coelho
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane. — Criss Jami
I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again. — Mary Jo Putney
Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what’s not on the list? Sane. — Richelle Mead
Always have a plan B and C, because if it doesn't work out there are other things you can focus on. It's important to have a balance to your life, regardless of what you're doing. I've been playing at this level for a long time, but I've got interests outside of rugby, like my family and my children. They keep me sane. — Filo Tiatia
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion. — Edwin Percy Whipple
I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? — Elizabeth Gilbert
You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? — Elizabeth Gilbert
I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane. — Nicole Polizzi
Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider. — Tom Lehrer
I could be a party girl, dating whoever I want and being reckless, but I like being in a relationship. When you have somebody who grounds you and keeps you sane, it helps. — Eva Longoria
People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of ... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is. — Michael Palin
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane. — John Irving
Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate. — David Pratt
What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane. — Jean Dujardin
It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy. — Diana Wynne Jones
Most of my training I do in between movies, and even if I wasn't an actor I'd be doing it. I started studying martial arts when I was 14, and it's something I still do just to keep sane and feel good about myself. — John Hyams
One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually. — Dave Barry
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