Mad Quotes - Page 14

• Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

  Bob Dylan

  Sky, Naked, Wonder

  'Chimes of Freedom' (1964 song)

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• In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

  R. D. Laing

  Insanity, Trying, Transition

  "The Divided Self". Book by R. D. Laing, Ch. 1, 1960.

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• But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

  Anthony Trollope

  People, Facts, Trouble

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.281

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• The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  School, Artist, Giving

  "The Allowable Rhyme". Book by H. P. Lovecraft, 1915.

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• The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.

  Andre Maurois

  Wise, Winning, Men

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

  Charles Lamb

  Dream, Gone, Fancy

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1959, Delphi Classics

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• The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

  Martin Luther

  Doe, Different, Lasts

  "Whether Soldiers Can Also Be in a State of Grace". Book by Martin Luther, 1526.

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• I was in New York when Clinton was elected the first time, and everyone I knew was in a state of mad euphoria. I wondered what had happened to my hard-headed friends? Almost everyone I knew was drunk on this great white hope. The next time I was in New York, no one had a good word to say about Clinton, but everyone was in love with Hillary. She was the last word. It's all so unreal. Of course, it's no different in England. Here everyone was besotted with Tony Blair. He was a new face. Do people never learn?

  Doris Lessing

  New York, White, People

  Interview with Jonah Raskin, progressive.org. June 1999.

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• Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

  Camille Paglia

  Consciousness, Adaptation, Burden

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.44, Canongate Books

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• Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

  David Hume

  Followers, Influential, Hume

  "A History of Western Philosophy". Book by Bertrand Russell, Book Three, Part I, Chapter 17. Hume, 1945.

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• Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Evil, Intellectual

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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• I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

  Wendy Cope

  Thinking, Lambs, Poet

  1986 'Triolet'. 0 See Lamb 486:25.

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• They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.

  Luol Deng

  Said, Concussions, Testing

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• You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

  Abu Nuwas

  Tears, Want, Repentance

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• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  Edward Bond

  Men, Awkward, Pity

  Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

  Hugo Chavez

  Israel, People, Holocaust

  "Venezuela 'to sever Israel ties'", news.bbc.co.uk. August 9, 2006.

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• I get mad when people are against pot.

  Tre Cool

  People, Pot

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• I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Sober, Melancholy

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 16 September 1773

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• If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and the skin tones. That's what I enjoy about acting. It can be very subtle, like that.

  Michael Rooker

  Character, Skin Tone, Upset

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."

  Denzel Washington

  Mother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

  J. Milton Hayes

  Heart, Knives, Yellow

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• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  Ted Hughes

  Eye, Night, Orange

  Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Boss

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Art, Rotten

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• I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

  Charles Stross

  Fun, Crazy, Reflection

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.88, Penguin

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