Being Mad Quotes

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

  John Dryden

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

  Ice T

  Mad, Being Real, Right Thing

  Ice-T, Douglas Century (2011). “Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood”, p.248, One World

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• There are worse things than being mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Mad

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• You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Mad, Doubt, Courses

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

  Irving Stone

  Mad, Madmen, Pleasant

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• One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Thinking, Men, Mad

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• Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

  Jayni Chase

  Mad, Hopeful, Being Sad

  "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

  Barack Obama

  Mad, Half, Kind

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

  Sting

  Mad, Madness

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• I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.

  Miuccia Prada

  Girl, Shoes, Mad

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• You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, Mad, Trophies

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• Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Lying, Hate

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• I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

  Peter Wolf

  Health, Thinking, Doctors

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• I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

  Lydia Lunch

  Lunch, Mad, Busy

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• You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

  David Markson

  Life, Mad, Anxiety

  David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”

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• You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Wall, Live Life

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• Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sympathy, Hate, Mad

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.246, Penguin

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• There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

  Denis Diderot

  Mad, Psychological, Harm

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• To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.

  Ken Kesey

  Stupid, Mad, Peaceful

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• Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

  Norman O. Brown

  Mad, Way, Resisting

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• Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

  Amy Clampitt

  Writing, Mad, Inspired

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• Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

  Diogenes

  Men, Mad, Insanity

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