Top Mad Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Mad quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of John Taylor
Tis a mad world, my masters.
- John Taylor
Collection: Mad
Image of Andrew Wyeth
If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.
- Andrew Wyeth
Collection: Mad
Image of Josef Pieper
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
- Josef Pieper
Collection: Mad
Image of Chuck Berry
Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
- Chuck Berry
Collection: Mad
Image of Thomas Kyd
As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.
- Thomas Kyd
Collection: Mad
Image of Rachel Joyce
If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.
- Rachel Joyce
Collection: Mad
Image of Edward Abbey
Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Mad
Image of Francine Pascal
Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.
- Francine Pascal
Collection: Mad
Image of Enoch Powell
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
- Enoch Powell
Collection: Mad
Image of Ice T
It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.
- Ice T
Collection: Mad
Image of Jodi Thomas
At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.
- Jodi Thomas
Collection: Mad
Image of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Jealousy will drive you mad.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Collection: Mad
Image of Sun Ra
If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes
- Sun Ra
Collection: Mad
Image of Ed Wood
One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.
- Ed Wood
Collection: Mad
Image of Brandon Boyd
Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
- Brandon Boyd
Collection: Mad
Image of Michel Faber
Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.
- Michel Faber
Collection: Mad
Image of Ivana Trump
Don't get mad. Get everything. - (on divorce).
- Ivana Trump
Collection: Mad
Image of James Agate
The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.
- James Agate
Collection: Mad
Image of Charles A. Beard
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
- Charles A. Beard
Collection: Mad
Image of Patricia Briggs
I don't get mad, I get even.
- Patricia Briggs
Collection: Mad
Image of Louise Bourgeois
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
- Louise Bourgeois
Collection: Mad
Image of Elizabeth Chandler
What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?
- Elizabeth Chandler
Collection: Mad
Image of Catherine O'Hara
These are mad times, but there have been a lot of mad times in the world.
- Catherine O'Hara
Collection: Mad
Image of Bernard DeVoto
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
- Bernard DeVoto
Collection: Mad
Image of Bill Burr
God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?
- Bill Burr
Collection: Mad
Image of Isaiah Berlin
Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.
- Isaiah Berlin
Collection: Mad
Image of Gaelen Foley
We’re all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.
- Gaelen Foley
Collection: Mad
Image of Sharon Gannon
One of the definitions for "mad" is "wild"; I'm certainly all for wild as opposed to domesticated.
- Sharon Gannon
Collection: Mad
Image of Anthony Burgess
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
- Anthony Burgess
Collection: Mad
Image of Norman O. Brown
Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
- Norman O. Brown
Collection: Mad
Image of James Carville
Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
- James Carville
Collection: Mad
Image of Oscar Romero
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.
- Oscar Romero
Collection: Mad
Image of Robert Andrews Millikan
Perhaps the Mad Hatter had a reason for calling time Him.
- Robert Andrews Millikan
Collection: Mad
Image of Todd Blackledge
Les Miles looks like the mad science genius.
- Todd Blackledge
Collection: Mad
Image of Maria Bamford
Here's the Middle East. Here's the mosque, here's the church, open the temple, everybody's MAD!
- Maria Bamford
Collection: Mad
Image of Irving Layton
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
- Irving Layton
Collection: Mad
Image of Paul Celan
We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'
- Paul Celan
Collection: Mad
Image of Ana Castillo
There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.
- Ana Castillo
Collection: Mad
Image of Donald C. Peattie
I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, null and even thoroughly discouraged. But I never came back in such a frame of mind, and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk.
- Donald C. Peattie
Collection: Mad
Image of Donald Glover
Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.
- Donald Glover
Collection: Mad
Image of Hermann Broch
Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?
- Hermann Broch
Collection: Mad
Image of Sarah Caldwell
Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.
- Sarah Caldwell
Collection: Mad
Image of Nicolas Malebranche
Imagination is the mad boarder.
- Nicolas Malebranche
Collection: Mad
Image of Jeremy Silman
Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified
- Jeremy Silman
Collection: Mad
Image of Doug Benson
If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.
- Doug Benson
Collection: Mad
Image of Shekhar Kapur
We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.
- Shekhar Kapur
Collection: Mad
Image of John Edensor Littlewood
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.
- John Edensor Littlewood
Collection: Mad
Image of Chris Crutcher
If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.
- Chris Crutcher
Collection: Mad
Image of Chris Crutcher
You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
- Chris Crutcher
Collection: Mad