We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.
— haruki murakami
She has learned over the years that sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation.
— michael cunningham (the hours)
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Developing an adequate response to rejection, neither defensive nor sentimental, lies at the heart of any serious attempt at sanity.
— alain de botton
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— marcus aurelius
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all - to live life like it is and not as it should be.
— cervantes
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
— melville
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
— oscar wilde
I taught him,” he quavered, “to trust in love. I said: ‘When love comes, that is reality.’ I said: ‘Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.’
— em forster
