Mad Quotes - Page 36

• Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

  Gore Vidal

  Liars, Believe, Always Believe

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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• People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

  Dionne Brand

  Believe, Passion, Inevitability Of Death

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.18, Vintage Canada

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• I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Catching On, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.79, Scholastic

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• I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

  Stendhal

  Advice, Pay, Heed

  Stendhal (2006). “Red and the Black Volume Ii EasyRead Com”, p.298, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You never get mad,” she said when their server left the table. “Except at me.” “That’s not true,” he said tightly. “Torie can get me going.” “Torie doesn’t count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Tables, Said

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• Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

  Harper Lee

  Jobs, Anger

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Half, Alice In Wonderland Mad

  "Fictional character: Mad Hatter". "Alice in Wonderland", www.imdb.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Crooks, Puritan, Wells

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

  Sylvia Plath

  Play, People, Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.79, Hamilton Books

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• She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt words written by a girl she only vaguely remembered. She wished she'd written more. Her words mad her feel sad and proud, powerful and relieved." p 272

  Lisa Genova

  Girl, Powerful, Teenager

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

  Rose Tremain

  Unique, Thinking, Want

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• I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

  Robert Walser

  Writing

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• Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Impossible, Said, Fortnight

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3117, Delphi Classics

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• Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

  Patricia Briggs

  Stupid, Waiting, Notes

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.61, Penguin

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• Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail

  John Ashbery

  Mean, Pockets, Fleeting

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

  Scott Westerfeld

  Dust, Tears, Towers

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• Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.

  Rick Yancey

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

  Brenda Ueland

  Running, Men, Hair

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Men, People

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• ...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Real, Islands

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• That is what I mean. A bath! The receptacle of porcelain, one turns the taps and fills it, one gets in, one gets out and ghoosh - ghoosh - ghoosh, the water goes down the waste pipe!" "M. Poirot are you quite mad?" "No, I am extremely sane.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Water, Waste

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open and empty and let it all pass through you. This is the key, you have learned – to relinquish control, to relinquish the desire for control. Even in this late drama, to try to control is to go mad. And so you do your best to let it all go.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Drama, Grief, Keys

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• Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

  Guillermo del Toro

  Madness, Stills, Ifs

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• Even if you haven't had the exclusivity conversation, they're still going to be mad if they find out you're dating someone they know and you haven't mentioned it. It's a dating rule." "Well, how am I supposed to know that rule?" "Everyone knows that rule." "I thought you were supposed to be on my side." "I am on your side!

  Cassandra Clare

  Your Side, Dating Someone, Sides

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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