Quotes about Sanity
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!
- John Updike
I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
Hope for sexual sanity is found only in one place: at the foot of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Paul David Tripp
But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
- Daniel 4:34
At the same time my sanity was restored, my honor and splendor returned to me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored to my throne, and surpassing greatness was added to me.
- Daniel 4:36
If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.
- 2 Corinthians 5:13
But no matter what is going on, there has to be something ultimately at stake. A prize, survival, sanity, success, even peace of mind.
- Patrick Lencioni
Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.
- Paulo Coelho
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right Response to Reality—the Three R's—is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity.
- Peter Kreeft
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
- Philip K. Dick