Quotes by Mad Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better Ann Brashares his-lovemadmean Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats. Ann Coulter madmilitarysoldier I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them! Ann Romney presseselectionmad The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita. Anne Carson madanimalbeautiful But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe. Anne Rice maddreamreality Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up. Anne Rice hellmadthinking -You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See? Anne Rice madtieslooks I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all. Anne Roiphe madwritingthinking Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person. Annie Lennox madordinarythinking I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly. Annie Lennox madmenwatches Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. Anthony Burgess sanitymadworld I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading. Anthony Daniels maxmadthinking Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something. Anthony Mackie bookshelveshammersmad The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner. Anthony Storr madsanethinking But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever. Anthony Trollope madfactspeople I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so. Anthony Trollope eightmadmen I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure. Antisthenes madpleasurefeels We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. Antisthenes madteachingrunning And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths. Antonin Artaud madmenideas [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. Antonin Artaud madmenideas«1234567891011»
