Mad Quotes - Page 29

• It's a perfect day for letting go.

  Robert Smith

  Letting Go, Crazy, Perfect Days

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• I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.

  Henry Miller

  Crazy, Struggle, Saws

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality - to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting - but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail. It is as if to say: if these are not valued - if these forms of wanting and feeling and speaking and doing - are not cultivated and encouraged and rewarded in the child, then the child will be mad.

  Adam Phillips

  Children, Feelings, May

  Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com

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• In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

  Charles Mackay

  Running, Reading, People

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds: Illustrated with numerous engravings. (2 Thle in 1 vol.). I”, p.7

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• It calls Devotion! genuine growth of night! Devotion! Daughter of Astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad!

  Edward Young

  Daughter, Night, Growth

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 9' l. 769

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• I think she always nursed a small mad hope.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thinking, Nurse

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.41, Vintage

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• We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

  Jim Morrison

  Eye, Dark, Dancing

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Thinking, Hair

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• Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Drinking, Men

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• I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

  Woody Allen

  Basketball, Baseball, Sleep

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Tis a mad world, my masters.

  John Taylor

  World, Mental Illness, Masters

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

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• Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

  Marc Edwards

  Humorous, People, Comfort

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• I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

  Chris Lowe

  Thinking, Gone, World

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

  William Boyd

  Fall, Hair, Locks

  "William Boyd Q&A with James Bond". Interview with William Boyd, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2013.

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• It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Gratitude, Stupid

  "Fictional character: Lester Burnham". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. September 8, 1999.

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• But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

  Jack London

  Iron, Long, World

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde Kostiff riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Memories, People, Riding

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.

  Val Kilmer

  New Experiences, Laptops, Cages

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers, not writers. Do powder puff, not probing interviews. Stay away from controversial subjects. Kiss ass, move with the mass, and for heaven and rating's sake, don't make anybody mad- - certainly not anybody you're covering, and especially not the mayor, the governor, the senator, the president or the vice-president or anybody in a position of power. Make nice, not news.

  Dan Rather

  Nice, Moving, Kissing

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mean, Secret, Purpose

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• DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

  Maurice Wilkins

  Dna, Gold, Midas

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• Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Mad Men

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dark, Safety, Age

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• I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Trying, Genius

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