Best Being Mad Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Amy Clampitt

“I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.”

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Author:Peter Wolf

“Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."”

“In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.”

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Book:Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

Source: Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

“Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.”

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Author:Irving Stone

“I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.”

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Author:Sting

“You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.”

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Book:Tales of Power

Source: Tales of Power

“I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.”

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Author:Miuccia Prada

“You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.”

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Author:Jayni Chase

“One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.”

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Author:Diogenes Laertius

“I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.”

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Author:Lydia Lunch

“You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.”

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Book:Wittgenstein's mistress

Source: Wittgenstein's mistress

“You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“There are worse things than being mad.”

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Author:Jack Kerouac

“Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.”

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Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.”

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Author:Denis Diderot

“There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.”

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Author:John Dryden

“Because the only people for me are the mad ones.”

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Author:Jack Kerouac

“To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.”

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Author:Ken Kesey

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

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Author:Diogenes

“Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.”

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Author:Norman O. Brown