Maddening Quotes
64 quotes by 55 authors
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The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money
— Nicholas von Hoffman
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Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
— H. L. Mencken
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People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening
— Daphne Zuniga
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There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to…
— Ashly Lorenzana
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Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other…
— David Baldacci
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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost
— Cheryl Strayed
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Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Your cousin might be a pretty face, but you, my darling, courageous, maddening, seductive, mysterious, wonderful Diana, you are the Duchess of Wakefield. My duchess.
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being…
— John Masefield
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Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either…
— Quentin Crisp
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Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.
— Michael Reagan
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The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it’s not what’s in your pack that separates the quick from…
— Laurence Gonzales
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I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking…
— Adam Arkin
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The problem is maddening. The thing you seek is so close, you feel you could reach out and touch it. You feel it is your…
— Dave Sim
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Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.
— Sylvia Plath
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It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.
— Ernest K. Gann
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Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay…
— Donna Freitas
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching…
— Plato
Who Wrote These Maddening Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 64 Maddening Quotes, led by these top contributors: