Top 60 Sanity Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Sanity Quotes from famous people such as Billy Corgan, Stephen Lang, Studs Terkel, Robert Frost, Michael Sheen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irrita

In my case I don’t mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
Billy Corgan
You can play anyone if you’re open enough. It’s a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen – but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.
Stephen Lang
I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.
Studs Terkel
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
‘Hamlet’ is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what’s real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Michael Sheen
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
Dixie Lee Ray
My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
Trixie Mattel
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 was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR’s irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
James Wolcott
Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.
Robert J. Sawyer
Occasionally, I’ll want to cover something that’s outside of my audiences’ tastes or interests. Every week or so I have to try and cover at least one or two of those things to keep my sanity. If you’re only reviewing what is in the top album spots on Apple Music every week, you can get kind of jaded.
Anthony Fantano
Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.
Paul Merton
The only way I’ve been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it’s time to pull back.
Lindsey Buckingham
I must visit a psychiatrist to check if there’s any sanity left in me.
Sherlyn Chopra
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
Mary Harris Jones
Let’s restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation’s millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.
Paul Tonko
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
John Russell
It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
James MacArthur
I don’t believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn’t find something to escape.
Anthony Ray Hinton
I didn’t make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my freedom.
Cornelia Parker
I’ve always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.
Ruth Glick
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamara
We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.
Lauren Jauregui
I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn’t stand up; I couldn’t recover.
Margaret Trudeau
Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.
Jane Lynch
I want to keep my sanity.
Michael Anthony
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
James Earl Jones
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Silvia Cartwright
Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that’s all I ask.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn’t be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they’re working. I thrive when I’m hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences.
Ronald Fisher
I feel 'SmackDown' has the absolute best tag teams in t

I feel ‘SmackDown’ has the absolute best tag teams in the world: we have us; we have The New Day. We have the Usos. We have The Club. We have Sanity. We have the Hardys. We have Rusev and Nakamura.
Cesaro
You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.
Travis Kalanick
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
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one’s endurance, sanity and stamina.
Henry Rollins
I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It’s not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It’s the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is ‘Delete.’
Elayne Boosler
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
There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
Bruce Cockburn
I’m very grateful, first of all, for my friends and my family because they keep me grounded, and they make sure I’m taking care of myself and that I’m keeping my sanity about me.
Brian Tyree Henry
Democracy just isn’t working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.
Michael Leunig
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I’ll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.
Audrina Patridge
Sanity is madness put to good use.
George Santayana
If immigration reform passes, it’ll be a big victory for sanity – nobody really believes it’s healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it’ll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.
Gail Collins
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber
In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.
James Howard Kunstler
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
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
Irving Babbitt
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag
To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.
Curt Smith
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
As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It’s the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.
Ronan Keating
There’s a big difference between sanity and insanity.
Megan Gallagher
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
I try to keep myself busy creatively; it’s for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.
Lauren Ashley Carter
America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.
Fela Kuti
If you look at top players – Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi – so many had a parent who was domineering to the point where you really had to question his sanity. It was nuts.
Douglas Brunt
I think it’s important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone’s favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won’t fall for the character as much.
Dianna Agron
I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I’ve been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.
Estelle
TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.
Julie Plec
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Rose Kennedy