Mad Quotes - Page 38

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

  John Dryden

  Depression, Insanity, Mental Illness

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• And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Mean, Mind

  Stephen Fry (2003). “Revenge: A Novel”, p.158, Random House

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• Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

  R. D. Laing

  Depression, Religion, Mental Illness

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• And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

  John Fowles

  Depression, Mental Illness, Ifs

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• I have a plan-to go mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Depression, Mental Illness, Plans

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• Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Attitude, Thinking, Space

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• I always said if I ever get married, I would tell my woman - I love Michael Jordan, I am a Michael Jordan fanatic - I said, 'Michael Jordan is the only athlete you can sleep with and I wouldn't get mad, as long as you got something signed. You gotta bring back a ball, a hat or something. You can't just give away that sh*t for free.'

  Aries Spears

  Sleep, Athlete, Funny Marriage

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• When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Couple, Steps

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• I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, School

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Machines, Woods, Firsts

  Interview with "Earth First!" in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.

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• If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse

  Bob Arum

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Book, Wine, Passion

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• The reason for forgiving your enemies is not for their benefit but for your own benefit. Holding grudges against other people doesn’t hurt them; doesn’t even bother them much - in fact, even pleases them if they are still mad at you. It is not in your enlightened self-interest to hold grudges, regardless of whether it bothers the person you hate or not.

  Brad Blanton

  Hurt, Hate, Self

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• If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  Men, Tv Shows, Would Be

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• Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes someone mad, there’s little you can do about it. Jesus’ teaching made some people furious. Just make sure it’s your ideas that offend and not you, that your beliefs cause the dispute and not your behavior.

  Greg Koukl

  Jesus, Teaching, Expression

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• Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new. But they rarely sustain the glow. They are balloons kept aloft by a restless crowd. Only the strange, the freaks of restaurant perfection, can sustain life beyond a few years.

  Sam Sifton

  Years, Perfection, Thrill

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• Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and you trust them. We're so young that it would almost be like if we lived in the same city, what would happen? We'd be living together. At least this way he's in the same boat as I am: We can go out and have our own lives and know that we have each other.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Cities, Together, Way

  "Jennifer Lawrence Just Can't Help It" by Aaron Gell, www.marieclaire.com. May 8, 2014.

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• Im not angry. I have never been angry in my entire life. The only thing that makes me angry is people videorecording me. Making me mad. NOW TURN IT OFF!

  Joe Jonas

  People, Turns, Make Me Angry

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• I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

  Kyle MacLachlan

  House, Lovely, Growing

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• It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

  Kevin Spacey

  Beauty, World, Janie

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• I have too much potential for collapse. There's an anonymity that makes people feel safe to participate in hatefulness. I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

  Julia Roberts

  Fighting, People, Pissed Off

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• Roman’s a little gay boy who lives in me. And every time I talk he sort of just appears and I tell him, ‘Roman, you know, stop it, you’ve gone mad, I tell you, mad.’ He’s an outlet to say what I need to say but sometimes don’t want to.

  Nicki Minaj

  Gay, Boys, Gone

  "Nicki Minaj: 'I am doing everything the boys can - plus more...'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• Someone stole my wallet last week. The guy called me up and he was mad at me. He was like 'you gotta get your finances together. You got no cash, your credit cards are maxed out. You don't even have minutes on your calling card. I had to use my card to call you.'

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!

  Diana Krall

  Mom, Advice, Upset

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• I do like to cook; I'm sort of a mad scientist in the kitchen.

  Kyle Chandler

  Kitchen, Scientist, Cooks

  "Man of the House: Kyle Chandler". Interview with Kate Coyne, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 25, 2008.

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