Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have
said. — Louise Bourgeois
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
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R. D. Lang
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
Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy. — Janet C. Long
Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity. — Dane Cook
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
I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion. — Andy Irons
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. — Miguel de Cervantes
In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. — Jemima Khan
Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it — Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. — Edgar Allan Poe
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. — J. G. Ballard
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? — Ursula K. LeGuin
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. — Unknown Author
I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. — Jared Leto
My Sanity Image Quotes
Life is short. To just "Do things" is insane. Live with a purpose. Live for a reason.
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
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. Bet it is never gone.
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
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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
Sanity Quotes
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. — Saint Augustine
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. — Edgar Allan Poe
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself. — Erich Fromm
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. — Rose Kennedy
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis
In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. — Chogyam Trungpa
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. — Wallace Stegner
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. — Rita Mae Brown
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. — Alvin Toffler
Losing My Mind Quotes
I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind. — Edgar Allan Poe
Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind. — Margaret Cousins
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development. — Melanie Klein
My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us. — Julian of Norwich
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain] — Gerard Way
Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind. — Howard Hughes
I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain. — L.A. Meyer
Picked up the yoga, put down the soda.
My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over.
Life of a stoner (if you still concerned),
I never lose, I only win or learn;
It's all about your state of mind. — Dizzy Wright
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. — S. I. Hayakawa
Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes. — Robert E. Lee
Madness And Sanity Quotes
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. — Bram Stoker
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R. D. Laing
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire
I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? — Miguel de Cervantes
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude. — Jose Mujica
And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. — Peter O'Toole
Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. — Ray Bradbury
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. — Philip K. Dick
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping. — Kenneth Tynan
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world. — Chris Hedges
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
History is the same thing over and over again. — Woody Allen
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. — Eckhart Tolle
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. — Christopher Moore
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. — Emily Dickinson
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton Wilder
Keeping Sane Quotes
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
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
Losing Your Mind Quotes
Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again. — Greg Plitt
You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right. — Young Jeezy
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. — Mick Jagger
It is the conditioned mind that says, 'I'm lost.' Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside your heart. — Mooji
Taking value from your vanity as you age is a losing battle. Your looks are a depreciating asset. Your mind is an appreciating asset. Invest your self-worth wisely. — Chris Williamson
Comfort eating on negativity will make you unhealthy and mental weight is the hardest to lose. For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage. — Steven Bartlett
That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back. — Bill Bryson
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. — Reid Hoffman
You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life. — George Foreman
Lost My Mind Quotes
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. — Vincent Van Gogh
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child — Adrienne Rich
In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost. — Venus Williams
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. — Steven Wright
I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it. — Eminem
The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened. — Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Like I tell everyone, I say the bottom line to my life is that I've gone through torments in my life, but it made me stronger. I haven't lost my mind, I haven't become a dope fiend, I'm not a drug pusher, I'm not a stick-up man. — John Carlos
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time. — Dwight Yoakam
I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in. — Chic Murray
Insanity Quotes
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more. — Oskar Schindler
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. — Cesare Lombroso
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. — Voltaire
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle
The different sorts of madness are innumerable. — Avicenna
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
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
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it — Nellie Bly
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. — Stephen King
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. — Bobby Fischer
Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity. — Matthew Hussey
Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. — Don Kardong
What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity. — Bill Vaughan
Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity. — Christine Feehan
If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation. — Paul Ryan
Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created. — John Ensign
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw. — Mark Lawrence
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them. — Josie Loren
It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world? — John Moffitt
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity. — Dean Koontz
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day. — Salman Rushdie
My best advice to working women is just try what you think right now will be best for you and your family - and if it doesn't work, then change it. And look for ways to cut corners to add to your sanity. — Jane Park
Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology. — Robert Anton Wilson
At first, being with Sebastian was like being in the middle of the best dream I'd ever had - but now it mostly feels exhausting. I'm up one minute and down the next; questioning what I say and do. Even questioning my sanity. — Candace Bushnell
Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it! — Jill Hennessy
I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it. — Blythe Danner
The whole time I was writing, I had to fight my normal inclination to be funny, to sort of patch humor in, in order to convey all of the disruptions of the disease to the family dynamic, the loss of individuality, the impact on professional life, and the sanity of the main character. Of course, that's not to say it never sneaks in; there's some black comedy in there, like when he shows up to court wearing a bicycle helmet and won't take it off. — Joshua Ferris
The more nervous I am, and the more insane a situation is, the more I love it and get addicted to it. That's why I love playing on stage. And I kind of freak out if I don't get to do it, because it's a big part of my sanity, I think. — Alison Mosshart
Keeping your sanity is sometimes stalling the business aspect of things and being OK with saying no to certain things. Sometimes I just need to be home and write in my diary every day and take long walks. Or just dancing - I have a few dancer friends, and I go to their places and drink tea, and put on these long electronic mixes; maybe smoke a joint, you know? I like to be in nature, and swim in the Swedish sea, and spend time with family. — Yukimi Nagano
By this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured. — Jonathan Santlofer
I think being on a show like Game of Thrones for six years, I've gone through that whole hype thing, and I know that it doesn't do you any good creatively. You've just got to stay focused on the character and the script and your work. As humble and as grateful as I am for so many people watching it, and that there's so much love and attention, it's best for my own sanity and creativeness to try and keep that at bay. — Finn Jones
I use music as a tool for my own personal sanity, one might say. After a long day or something, I can always come home and sit down and play a song, or write a song, just relax and kind of space out with my guitar. — Michael Graziadei
My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity. — Jeff Ross
I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity! — Jennifer Aniston
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