Mad Quotes

• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

  Walter Bagehot

  Wise, Lying, Philosophy

  Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1855). “The National Review”, p.46

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• Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

  Al Yankovic

  New York, Nice, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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  Get mad, then get over it.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Moving On, Wise

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• We all go a little mad sometimes.

  Joseph Stefano

  Serial Killer, Littles, Sometimes

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

  Kevin Spacey

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

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

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• The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Knowledge, Insanity

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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  It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

  John Waters

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.

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• Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Responsible, Seeing

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1947). “Resurrection”

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• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

  Joyce Meyer

  Father, Home, Mean

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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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

  Irving Stone

  Madmen, Pleasant, Being Mad

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• We're all mad here.

  Lewis Carroll

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland / Alice Im Wunderland: Alice's Classic Adventures in a Bilingual Parallel Text / Die Klassischen Abenteuer Von Alice”, p.106, Sivinco

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• They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

  Khalil Gibran

  Money, Thinking, Perspective

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Crazy, Mistake

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• 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, People, Deep Life

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• There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

  Lewis Carroll

  Land, Needs, Earth

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

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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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• Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Wonderland, Impossible

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• Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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