Top 101 Sane Quotes

I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you’re a diva. They can’t believe after eight years, and eight albums, you’re still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.

When my last relationship broke up, I bought a house one door along from my ex so that our daughter could continue to see as much of both of us as possible. This seems to me eminently sane and civilised.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It’s fragile up there.

I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

We’ve got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

As a stand-up, as a storyteller, as an improviser, I’ve done thousands of shows. They allow me to work out new material that might turn into something later. They let me keep my muscles sharp for when the rent-paying gigs do come along. They keep me sane.

I went to a regular school… education kept me sane.

I have sane friends, solvent friends, foodie friends, and friends who can take time off in the week, but I don’t know one single person who ticks all those boxes.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

I keep myself sane with stuff that’s fun and not physical.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ because it’s simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

There’s so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it – it’s a real peaceful thing to me.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.

My basic mistake in ‘The World’s Greatest Lover’ was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.

If you remind yourself everyday, where you are from, who you really are, what will happen in the future, and where you exactly stand, then you’ll be sane.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

I don’t think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn’t already know about religion. It has long been obvious – even to the deeply religious – that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.

Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the ‘lunatics with beards’ he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies.

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I’ve always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I’d fall in love with a woman. Damn.

A sane person doesn’t think war is a good idea.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

I don’t know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

Keeping busy keeps me sane.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don’t blame poor people for being poor.

People like my honesty. When I’m sane, I’m very much myself.

To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.

When do you know you’re insane? And when do you known you’re sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It’s a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we’d probably all do it. But I don’t know that there is a recipe for creating that.

I like pretty things around. I like it to be prissed up. Then I feel at least something is sane in my life.

A game is great, in my view, only if it can be played happily by a sane person of at least average intelligence for several hours a day for fifty years. Both pool and billiards qualify.

Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I’m willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I’m willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

I am worried about the Tory party because give or take the odd spasm we have always been seen as pragmatic, sensible, good at our job, sane, reasonable and having the interests of the whole country. Now it is beginning to look like a Brexit sect.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

There are times as an actor when you don’t work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that’s going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I’ve definitely gone through that. It’s like, ‘Okay, I’m out of work for two months.’ That’s two months I can paint.

No sane man will dance.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

I taught myself German and psychology. Learning about psychology really helped me understand myself and the others around me and it helped keep me sane.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‘even’ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

After I wrote my memoir, ‘A Long Way Gone,’ I was a bit exhausted. I didn’t want to write another memoir; I felt that it might not be sane for one to speak about himself for many, many, many years in a row. At the same time, I felt the story of ‘Radiance of Tomorrow’ pulling at me because of the first book.

I haven’t got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What’s sane? What is crazy?

‘Eagle vs Shark’ was about keeping myself sane. I wanted to go back to my comedy roots with people I trusted and had worked with before and do something low-budget and more experimental.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I’m the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

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.

Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way – and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we’re really good at politically any more.

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I’m still alive.

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it’s fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, ‘If I ever get rich, I’m not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn’t spend money.’

I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we’re living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man’s brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.