Quotes on Sane

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I think it means love.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail -- Assent -- and you are sane -- Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- And handled with a Chain --

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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