Mad World Quotes

• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Depression, Crazy, Insane World

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mad, World, Sanity

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• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Funny, Depression, Crazy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Worn out places, worn out faces.

  Gary Jules

  Faces, Worn, Worn Out

  Song: Mad World {From Donnie Darko}, Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets, 2006

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• Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Successful, Mad

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

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• In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane.

  Craig Nicholls

  Mad, World, Sane

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

  Graham Greene

  Mad, World, Seems

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mad, Flying, Devil

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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• It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who are weak, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Compassion, Our World

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• Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

  Ethel Merman

  Country, Attitude, People

  "Fictional character: Mrs. Marcus". "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.

  Gary Jules

  Dream, Dying

  Song: Mad World {From Donnie Darko}

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• Tis a mad world, my masters.

  John Taylor

  Mad, World, Mental Illness

  John Taylor (1999). “Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.

  George R. R. Martin

  Boys, Mad, Giants

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.899, Bantam

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• For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Real, Book

  Ray Bradbury (1990). “Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit”

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• Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Humble, Pride, Mad

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• The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

  James Agate

  Mad, Events, World

  James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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• I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience.

  Cillian Murphy

  Men, Mad, People

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• Look right through me, look right through me.

  Gary Jules

  Looks

  Song: Mad World {From Donnie Darko}, Album: Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets

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• I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

  Dick Cavett

  Exercise, Mad, World

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.210, Henry Holt and Company

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