Mad Quotes

2424 Mad quotes by 1562 unique authors

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of… — Jack Kerouac
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my… — William Shakespeare
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. — William Shakespeare
Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream. — Edgar Allan Poe
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. — Voltaire
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. — Sylvia Plath
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!… — Emily Bronte
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin. — Voltaire
If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad,… — William Shakespeare
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're… — Charles Bukowski
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint! — Jane Austen
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s… — Ana Castillo
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a… — S. J. Perelman
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink… — Robert Fulghum
Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing? — Leo Tolstoy
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. — Jasper Fforde
Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em… — Robert Penn Warren
--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you,… — Donald Barthelme
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in… — Jack Kerouac
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my… — Anne Frank
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly, and you have… — Christopher Moore
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. — Kurt Vonnegut

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