Mad Quotes

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

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.

Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.

I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Don't get mad, get even.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I'm not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced.

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

I ask you, if a mad man came in and abducted your child and I said to you I can bring your child homedoes it matter how I bring them home?

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.

Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream.

Imma kill it I promise this, I know you mad.

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

Those mad at me, writing emails angrily, Im not anti-America, America is anti-me.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

Is it mad to pray for better hallucinations?

When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!

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

See the ridiculous in everything.

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

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.

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

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

The undevout astronomer must be mad.