Mad Quotes

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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. — Charles Bukowski
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. — Eckhart Tolle
If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in… — Stephen Crane
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone… — Douglas Adams
Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has… — Thomas Merton
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless… — Oscar Wilde
When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they… — Baroness Orczy
The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a… — Alan Moore
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there… — Terry Pratchett
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling… — Roger Zelazny
I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me. — Stephen Chbosky
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. — W. Somerset Maugham
If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours. — Shannon Hale
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone. — Ellen Hopkins
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. — Graham Greene
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and… — Honore de Balzac
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove… — Frances Hardinge
She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be… — Christopher Paolini
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad. — Stephen King
We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people… — Charles Bukowski
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead. — Stephen King
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month… — Karen Joy Fowler
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses,… — Edgar Allan Poe
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than… — Terry Pratchett

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