I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

- Edgar Allan Poe

I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

- Kate Winslet

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

- John Russell

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

- Jill Hennessy

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

- Joan Didion

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

- Irving Babbitt

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

- George Weinberg

Sanity is madness put to good use.

- George Santayana

I've had to find my sanity.

- Evangeline Lilly

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

- Erich Fromm

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

- Alice Walker

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

- Diahann Carroll

Here lies a nuisance dedicated to sanity.

- David Low

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

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

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

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

- Billy Corgan

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

- Anthony Storr

If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.

- Aaron Ruell

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

- Alvin Toffler