Sanity
noun
The state of having a normal healthy mind.
He questioned his own sanity after spending hours talking to himself.
Often appears as...
- question one's sanity
- regain/stay sane
noun
The ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner.
As the days turned to weeks, he struggled to maintain his sanity.
Often appears as...
- maintain one's sanity
- keep/stay/remain sane
noun
Health of mind, soundness of judgment.
The defense attorney questioned the defendant's sanity at the time of the crime.
Often appears as...
- plead for sanity
- sanity hearing
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noun
The state of having a normal healthy mind.
He questioned his own sanity after spending hours talking to himself.
Often appears as...
- question one's sanity
- regain/stay sane
noun
The ability to think and behave in a normal and rational manner.
As the days turned to weeks, he struggled to maintain his sanity.
Often appears as...
- maintain one's sanity
- keep/stay/remain sane
noun
Health of mind, soundness of judgment.
The defense attorney questioned the defendant's sanity at the time of the crime.
Often appears as...
- plead for sanity
- sanity hearing
Usage tips
Formal
Legal
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Pro Tip 1/2Mental Health
Refers to a stable mental state, suggesting someone can cope with daily life.
After the accident, he took a break to restore his sanity.
Pro Tip 2/2Personal Doubt
Often used when someone is feeling uncertain about their thoughts or behaviors.
Working non-stop led her to doubt her sanity.
Pro Tip 1/2Mental Health
Refers to a stable mental state, suggesting someone can cope with daily life.
After the accident, he took a break to restore his sanity.
Pro Tip 2/2Personal Doubt
Often used when someone is feeling uncertain about their thoughts or behaviors.
Working non-stop led her to doubt her sanity.
Pro Tip 1/2Mental Health
Refers to a stable mental state, suggesting someone can cope with daily life.
After the accident, he took a break to restore his sanity.
Pro Tip 2/2Personal Doubt
Often used when someone is feeling uncertain about their thoughts or behaviors.
Working non-stop led her to doubt her sanity.
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
time ago he said it would be the undoing of our sanity and that's exactly what's happening we are acting like fools because of what we see on television and a leader that spends a lot of time on television saying racist sexist ageist homophobic ethics ethnocentric things our students don't it shouldn't have to
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A theory of everything PIPE...
when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else. Now, the only way to maintain sanity and achieve happiness in the midst of this uncertainty is to keep balance and perspective in life. I've tried the best I can to live a balanced life.
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What is love? - Brad...
It's all you need. It's all there is. These are all comparisons, though, ways of defining it by contrast, by saying it's more important than all other things, but is it? Sure, love matters more than your standard turkey sandwich, but does it matter more than shelter? Or sanity?
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This Man Turned His Life...
care about people didn't care about your life didn't care about my own life actually eventually you wake up and when you realize that you're practicing insanity you're doing the same thing over and over the exact same way and you're looking for a different result I
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The voices in my head PIPE...
And I always wish, at this point, the voice had said, "She is digging her own grave." I was referred to a psychiatrist, who likewise took a grim view of the voice's presence, subsequently interpreting everything I said through a lens of latent insanity.
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
and he said, "I wanted to meet you. I wanted to see what a crazy person looked like." The laws are ours, and no matter what your ethnicity, nationality, gender, race, they belong to us, and fighting for justice is not an act of insanity.
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Snakecharmer Handles...
insanity but the truth is this cobras fangs are on the upper jaw pointed down like this and fixed this snake can only strike coming downwards so coming down on the top of its head like that it's actually physically impossible for the
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Why should you read...
unable to choose between life and death. But his endless questioning raises yet another is Hamlet’s madness part of a performance to confuse his enemies, or are we watching a character on the brink of insanity?
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Earth Day Eve 2021 PIPE...
Many come, many go We're not asleep, we're there for all We come in peace Not in pieces Oh yeah, yeah The glimpse of hope in humanity The last frontier of our own sanity
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Rediscovering ourselves...
of the zoo I say yes and no I am a pail of the world and I come from the wilderness magic and so in search of a renewed sense of sanity I have turned to
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
time ago he said it would be the undoing of our sanity and that's exactly what's happening we are acting like fools because of what we see on television and a leader that spends a lot of time on television saying racist sexist ageist homophobic ethics ethnocentric things our students don't it shouldn't have to
Video examples
A theory of everything PIPE...
when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else. Now, the only way to maintain sanity and achieve happiness in the midst of this uncertainty is to keep balance and perspective in life. I've tried the best I can to live a balanced life.
Video examples
What is love? - Brad...
It's all you need. It's all there is. These are all comparisons, though, ways of defining it by contrast, by saying it's more important than all other things, but is it? Sure, love matters more than your standard turkey sandwich, but does it matter more than shelter? Or sanity?
Video examples
This Man Turned His Life...
care about people didn't care about your life didn't care about my own life actually eventually you wake up and when you realize that you're practicing insanity you're doing the same thing over and over the exact same way and you're looking for a different result I
Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
And I always wish, at this point, the voice had said, "She is digging her own grave." I was referred to a psychiatrist, who likewise took a grim view of the voice's presence, subsequently interpreting everything I said through a lens of latent insanity.
Video examples
Kimberley Motley: How I...
and he said, "I wanted to meet you. I wanted to see what a crazy person looked like." The laws are ours, and no matter what your ethnicity, nationality, gender, race, they belong to us, and fighting for justice is not an act of insanity.
Video examples
Snakecharmer Handles...
insanity but the truth is this cobras fangs are on the upper jaw pointed down like this and fixed this snake can only strike coming downwards so coming down on the top of its head like that it's actually physically impossible for the
Video examples
Why should you read...
unable to choose between life and death. But his endless questioning raises yet another is Hamlet’s madness part of a performance to confuse his enemies, or are we watching a character on the brink of insanity?
Video examples
Earth Day Eve 2021 PIPE...
Many come, many go We're not asleep, we're there for all We come in peace Not in pieces Oh yeah, yeah The glimpse of hope in humanity The last frontier of our own sanity
Video examples
Rediscovering ourselves...
of the zoo I say yes and no I am a pail of the world and I come from the wilderness magic and so in search of a renewed sense of sanity I have turned to
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Quote examples
Future
American Musician
Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.
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Jay-Z
American Musician
Everyone knows I'm married; I just don't discuss it. Because it's a part of my life that I'd rather keep private... When your whole life is played out in front of everybody, for your sanity, you need parts that are just yours.
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Tom Cruise
American Actor
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
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James Earl Jones
American Actor
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.
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Josie Loren
American Actress
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.
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Gianluca Vialli
Italian Manager
I never meditated before. I wish I'd started when I was a footballer or more importantly when I was a manager. It might have saved me from insanity.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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James MacArthur
American Actor
It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
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Studs Terkel
American Journalist
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
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Cliff Burton
American Musician
Control your life through insanity.
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Future
American Musician
Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.
Quote examples
Jay-Z
American Musician
Everyone knows I'm married; I just don't discuss it. Because it's a part of my life that I'd rather keep private... When your whole life is played out in front of everybody, for your sanity, you need parts that are just yours.
Quote examples
Tom Cruise
American Actor
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
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James Earl Jones
American Actor
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.
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Josie Loren
American Actress
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.
Quote examples
Gianluca Vialli
Italian Manager
I never meditated before. I wish I'd started when I was a footballer or more importantly when I was a manager. It might have saved me from insanity.
Quote examples
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish Novelist
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Quote examples
James MacArthur
American Actor
It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.
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Studs Terkel
American Journalist
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
Quote examples
Cliff Burton
American Musician
Control your life through insanity.
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