Nina Simone
Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
"What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did."
Sane quotes
Sane
77 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Homer
Poet
"Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend."
Sean Young
Actress
"I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"No sane society chooses to commit national suicide."
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"I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future."
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"A sane person to an insane society must appear insane."
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"When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket."
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"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
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"If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane."
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"Every man has a sane spot somewhere."
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"The more intelligent, the less sane"
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"Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane."
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"Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons."
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"The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip."
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"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
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"Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there."
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"I can't be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I'd be mad, and I'm not mad, so trees can't talk."
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"I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them."
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"the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things."
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"Working with my hands keeps me sane."
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"The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is."
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"He who can simulate sanity will be sane."
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"Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary."
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"Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane."
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