Quotes about mad

Nicola Sturgeon -

I drove my mum and dad mad.

Rita Ora -

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

Jesse McCartney -

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Colin Powell -

Get mad, then get over it.

Diogenes -

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Pat Nixon -

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

Anonymous -

The one thing you don't do is screw with me, or I'll make your life a living hell; and trust me I'll make sure you burn!

Jane Austen - Love and Friendship

Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache -

And there I was at night, chasing after the full moon behind the clouds like a mad man in search of the reflection of the light of love in another person, without daring to light up the spark of light that I had left within myself. It was nowhere to be seen, but I felt it was out there somewhere. I've surely seen it a couple of days ago up in the sky and my eyes couldn't have lied to me, it was so beautiful, or so it appeared to be. I guess I have to stop stalking what can't be seen for awhile a

G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

Zhou Weihui -

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

Anita B. Sulser PhD - We Are One

There is much of our world, we do not see. So, it is easy to assume nothing exciting happens in our quadrant of space, but we are dead wrong. Crazy, impossible things occur all the time. We simply need to know where to look.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -

Until you go and grow ‎MAD‬ with and in your true passion and purpose, you cannot enter the realm of meteority which is enemical to mediocrity.

D. Antoinette Foy -

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing with my imagination to even tip toe with reality for a second. They say I'm going mad. They're right.

Charlotte Eriksson -

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

Tahereh Mafi - Unravel Me

I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the broken beats of my heart I count my pulse and my blinks and the number of tries it takes to inhale enough oxygen for my lungs. I stay like this I stand like this I count like this until the feeling stops. Until the tears stop spilling, until my fists stop shaking, until my heart stops aching. There are n

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.

Charles Bukowski - You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paintsHemingway testing his shotgunCeline going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being humanVillon expelled from Paris for being a thiefFaulkner drunk in the gutters of his townthe impossibility of being humanBurroughs killing his wife with a gunMailer stabbing histhe impossibility of being humanMaupassant going mad in a rowboatDostoevsky lined up against a wall to be shotCrane off the back of a boat into the propell

Treyco -

If everything happens for a reason that means you made the right choice even when it’s the wrong choice

Warren Ellis -

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.

Nathan Filer -

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller - Drugs & Madness

Maybe it is not the 'mad' people who should be fixed in order to function in our society, but our society that needs to be fixed so that we do not interfere with their function.

Darynda Jones - Seventh Grave and No Body

I thought you were mad at me.""I am.""Well, I make it a rule never to have sex with anyone who's mad at me."He arched a brow. "It's a wonder you've ever had sex at all.

Jaclyn Moriarty - The Year of Secret Assignments

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

Israelmore Ayivor - Let's Go to the Next Level

If you fail, you will be sad. But if you quit, you will be mad. Don't give up on your dreams. Get up. You can do it!

William Shakespeare - Prince of Denmark

ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

Tite Kubo -

The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. Nothing. Not a single thing. I loathe perfection! If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities. Do you know what that means? For scientists such as o

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading

I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.

Anthony Ryan - Queen of Fire

What do you think the world is if not just an endless parade of madness? To make war is madness. To seek power is madness." She laughed louder, throwing her arms wide. "And madness is glorious!

Margo T. Rose - The Words

I know I've got no reason to be crying;I know that there is nowhere left to run.I know that there's no reason to be hiding,I'm just mad at everyone; mad at everyone.

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

The tension has worn us out. It is a deadly tension that feels as if a jagged knife blade is being scraped along the spine. Our legs won't function, our hands are trembling and our bodies are like thin membranes stretched over barely repressed madness, holding in what would otherwise be an unrestrained outburst of endless scream.s. We have no flesh, no muscle now

Kamand Kojouri -

I will speak of love until you go mad and join me in my mad worship of love.

Avijeet Das -

She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way!

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.

Jeff Valdez -

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

William Shakespeare - Prince of Denmark

POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently.HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?POLONIUS By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed.HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel.POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel.HAMLET Or like a whale?POLONIUS Very like a whale.HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by.

Annie Fisher - The Greater Picture

With his mad eyes that cannot seem to look at everything they want to all at once, with the dagger poised in his palm- like sharp teeth or black eyes, he is transforming into something both terrifying and exciting, mysterious and sexy. I reach forward on the sand towards them as though to touch him, my magical boy.

Deyth Banger -

The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity.

Deyth Banger -

My father never was a famous guy, he was just a person which made a lot of mistakes. But the suicide wasn't the best path, the best choice it was a way which could be skipped by using something else, by doing something else.But the question is why did he do it?To make mad and crazy the daughter of his ladylove??

Roni Batti Kajou -

Don't fucking quote me!

Michael Bassey Johnson -

The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath.

Adriane Leigh - Steel and Lace: The Complete Series

You’re cute when you're mad." He caressed my bottom lip with the pad of his thumb. I huffed in exasperation. "Is that why you make me mad all the time?

Deyth Banger -

My father some times he goes crazy, but sometimes nerves, crazy and mad in one place it's like daemon have started to control his life so he ended his life.

Lev Shestov - In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths

They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.

Karl Marlantes -

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

Despair Inc. -

Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?

Emilie Autumn - The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.

Ruskin Bond - The Best of Ruskin Bond

Everyone says she’s mad.’‘How do they know?’ I asked.‘Because she’s different from other people, I suppose.’‘Is that being mad?’‘No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.

Stephen Richards - Insanity: My Mad Life

Is Bronson mad! Let me ask you! How else can I be? I’m probably the maddest guy on two legs if the truth was known, but prison will never beat me, I’d sooner die today than allow it too!

Oliver Markus - Sex and Crime: Oliver's Strange Journey

Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.

Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

Kim Harrison - Every Which Way But Dead

The mad have a grace all their own".

Amy Jackson -

It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous.

Beth Revis - Across the Universe

Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone.” A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest to me jabs her finger behind her ear and starts whispering to nobody.“What’s wrong with her?” I ask Harley as he leads me to the table he was sitting at.“Oh, don’t worry, we’re all mad here.”I giggle, mostly from nerves. “It’s a good thing I read Alice in Wonder-land . I definitely think I’ve fall

Anne Rice - Merrick

A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windows the deep bass of the radio, and the nasty words of a hateful song.It seemed like so much of modern music, a din to drive human beings mad.

Margaret McMullan -

When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice had a family with a station wagon, a split-level house, and a pool. But then I looked up and saw Mary Alice's toes, as she stood at the edged of the diving board. Her second toe lay on top of her big toe on each foot. I had never seen such a thing. I wondered if Mary Alice's toes would ever prevent her from doing the things she wanted to do in life. "Look, y'all!" she said, formin

King George II -

Mad, is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.

Jodi Thomas - Twisted Creek

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

You baffle me, addle me, drive me insane. You muddle, befuddle, and rattle my brain. My senses are mad, Skewed judgment to blame.You drive me half stark-raving bonkers!(But the truly crazy thing is how I love it.)

Clare Vanderpool - Navigating Early

What would you rather be, Jackie? Angry mad or crazy mad? I think I'd rather be crazy mad, because you can be crazy and still happy.

Munia Khan -

Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

David Almond - My Name Is Mina

Weird how I can feel so frail and tiny sometimes, and other times so brave and bold and reckless and free, and . . . Does everybody feel the same? When people get grown-up, do they always feel grown-up and sensible and sorted out and . . . And do I want to feel grown-up? Do I want to stop feeling . . . paradoxical, nonsensical? Do I want to stop being crackers? Do I want to be destrangified? O yes, sometimes I want nothing more - but it only lasts a moment, then O I want to be the strangest and

Hiroko Sakai -

When you get mad, it's the time you lose

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading

I love you madly, forever.

Ally Blake - Getting Red-Hot with the Rogue

If I’m right,’ she said, ‘and you have all sorts of juicy information in that dossier of yours, you’ll know that I am an abnormally forgiving person, even of those who have used me and hurt me more than one person deserves to be hurt. But right this second, I am looking forward to the day you rot in hell.

John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not to no murder. You done right. Don't you kill nobody if you can help it.

Kathryn Holmes -

I hate him.” She repeats it louder. “I hate him!” She shouts it at the sky, even though it’s hard to shout lying down: “I! Hate! Luke! Willis!”Rachel asks, “But what did he do?”Hallelujah can hear Jonah waiting for her answer. She knows he’s waiting because he’s stopped making fire-building noises. He’s silent. Completely.She takes a deep breath. “He told a lie about me. Actually, a lot of lies. And people believed him. The grown-ups, because he’s the preacher’s son and he’d never do something b

Kendall Hailey - The Day I Became an Autodidact

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

Gail Carriger - Soulless

He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.

Ziad K. Abdelnour - Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Don’t be afraid to make people mad. Your honesty will inspire your true followers. I piss off tons of people every day.

Thomm Quackenbush - Artificial Gods

We're not mad," he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

Sarah Darer Littman - Want to Go Private?

I was so mad, I reached into the drawer for her fake sushi eraser and put it in my pocket. Serves her right for being such a big, fat, Eggo-scarfing liar.

Chris Gethard - A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure

I'm unable to tell you what it feels like to be "a little" mad. My emotions work as if controlled by a light switch. I'm either fine or I'm out of control. I once spilled a container of thumbtacks and got as angry at myself as I did when I screwed up my relationship with my high school sweetheart. If I'm under the impression that there are Golden Grahams in my cupboard, then realize that there in fact are none, there's a high probability I'll be as sad as I was at my grandfather's funeral.In oth

Aishah Madadiy - Bits of Heaven

Someone engulfed by fury cannot think rationally.

Michael Grant - Hunger

Here’s the thing, people: We have some serious problems. The lights are off. And it seems like that’s affecting the water flow in part of town. So, no baths or showers, okay? But the situation is that we think Caine is short of food, which means he’s not going to be able to hold out very long at the power plant.”“How long?” someone yelled.Sam shook his head. “I don’t know.”“Why can’t you get him to leave?”“Because I can’t, that’s why,” Sam snapped, letting some of his anger show. “Because I’m no

Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin

This is a dynamic particular to encounters with male drivers, who seem to grow all the more indignant the more completely they are in the wrong. I think the emotional reasoning, if you can call it that, is transitive: You make me feel bad; feeling mad makes me mad; ergo, you make me mad.

Eminem -

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

Selena Gomez -

My mom would still be mad if I didn't say 'please' and 'thank you.'

Aldous Huxley -

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Umberto Eco -

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Vivien Leigh -

I've always been mad about cats.

Agnes Repplier -

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

Robyn Davidson -

I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

Deborah Moggach -

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

Samuel Beckett -

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Christopher Morley -

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Audrey Hepburn -

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got a sting in his stomach, an hunger that causes an epidemic hatred.

Glenda Millard - A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

Gayle Forman - Just One Year

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.

Shannon L. Alder -

The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading

He's unconventionally attractive and yet coincidentally everything I've ever wanted.

Holly Black - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

Rainbow Rowell - Fangirl

A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most.

Shannon L. Alder -

It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before the body dies. Yet, so many people can go years hanging onto pain and feeling emotionally dead inside. I suppose if it was the other way around more people would go to school to be morticians because of the booming business, or pastors would have to hand out Valium with the sacrament, just to keep the census high.

M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry

You are funny like a kid and awesome like a princessUnseen like an angel, like the morning sunshine… Kindness like a river and highness like a mountain, In the middle of the Rheine, the cute face and sweet lips …(La la la la, La la , mmmm , mm …)Keep the lovely smile, in your juicy icy eyes Open the heaven for my eyes, forever angel voice Never angry never harsh, never mad never marsh Dear or darling, either diamond or dime, Overall the dream of the world

Erik Pevernagie -

When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. (“On a doggy day”)

Sarah J. Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses

She has the most delicious thoughts about you, Tamlin,” he said. “She’s wondered about the feeling of your fingers on her thighs—between them, too.” He chuckled. Even as he said my most private thoughts, even as I burned with outrage and shame, I trembled at the grip still on my mind. Rhysand turned to the High Lord. “I’m curious: Why did she wonder if it would feel good to have you bite her breast the way you bit her neck?” “Let. Her. Go.” Tamlin’s face was twisted with such feral rage that it