Top 100 Be Mad Quotes
#1. A man ought to be able to be carried away by his feelings, he ought to be able to be mad, to make mistakes, to suffer! A woman will forgive you audacity and insolence, but she will never forgive your reasonableness!
Anton Chekhov
#2. Veterinary arts?" Jane asked with a gasp. "Lucy, you must be mad." "I assure you I've all my wits about me," Lucy Abbington answered with a frown. No, she wasn't mad, but her life was about to change - dramatically. She'd long since recognized this as the truth, ever since her father had packed her
Kristina Cook
#3. i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.
Ian McEwan
#4. You're mad cause my style you're admiring,
Don't be mad ... UPS is hiring
Craig Mack
#5. To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.
Joel Osteen
#6. If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
Paul Krugman
#7. I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
Maxine Waters
#8. To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
Thomas Hobbes
#9. But ... if it's so awful and difficult who not try to become a group? Be accepted?
He glittered at me for a moment, then said, I would rather be mad.
Patricia Duncker
#10. Don't be mad was the first thing he said. He really was terrified, as if the most frightening reaper on the planet was no scarier than a mouse, and yet put him in a tux and it was the Apocalypse.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#11. How could Triple H EVER be mad, how could he EVER have a bad day? How would you like to be married to her?! Wake up in a wonderful mood every morning. I mean, look at that!
Jerry Lawler
#12. Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. I didn't do it
That's a lie
I didn't do it
No, not I
I didn't do it
Hear me cry
I didn't do it
Hope to die
I didn't do it
I'm not that bad
But if I did ...
Would you be mad?
Shel Silverstein
#14. Fine. Be mad. Take it out on me. I'm planning to take out my emotions on you.
Laurelin Paige
#15. I am a monster."
"Don't say that."
"It is okay. I will be good monster. Then you will not have to be mad.
Rick Riordan
#17. Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.
Blaise Pascal
#18. I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?
Jim Butcher
#19. To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.
Percy Cerutty
#20. I may be mad, he thought, but I prefer the shit of this world to whatever sweet ambrosias the next may offer.
Tom Robbins
#21. Sanity is the one unbelievable bore. One must be mad, slightly twisted - then one sees life from a new and entrancing angle.
Agatha Christie
#22. I've never understood why people get mad at others for not being interested in them romantically - especially when there are so many reasons to be mad at people that are within their control.
Ingrid Weir
#23. In the same way that the really rich can never be mad (they're eccentric), so they can also never be rude (they're outspoken and forthright).
Terry Pratchett
#24. I never said that. I just didn't correct you when you were, you know, wrong. Anyway, I just saved you from being burned to death, so I figure you're not allowed to be mad. -Jace
Cassandra Clare
#25. Yea, kinda hard to be mad when he says shit like that.
Maya Banks
#26. After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.
Mathias Rust
#27. As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.
Marcel Proust
#28. You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.
Chris Rock
#29. Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.
Donald Glover
#30. Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.
Stephen Fry
#31. SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?
PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#32. Hold on to your friends.
Resist - or move on
Be mad, be rash
Smoke and explode
Sell all of your clothes
Just bear in mind:
There just might come a time
When you need some friends
Morrissey
#33. Fun my ass. The only thing remotely pleasant about this experience is that Des is wearing an Iron Maiden shirt, his tattoos are on full display, and his leather pants are hugging the shit out of his backside. I mean, I can be mad at him and still enjoy the view. Over
Laura Thalassa
#34. I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
Taylor Swift
#35. I got that Leon was just looking out for her, so how could anyone really be mad in the end?
J. Peach
#36. You have the right to be mad, but be mad with a purpose. Be mad at the right thing.
Meghan Quinn
#37. I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
Janis Joplin
#39. Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another's madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself. The veil that separates earthly beings is, at times, a tragic barrier, but it is also, at times, a great kindness.
Andre Alexis
#40. It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
Jeff Foxworthy
#41. I can promise you one thing. It'll be mad and passionate. Because I don't believe mediocre sex is worth having.
Leylah Attar
#42. Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified
Jeremy Silman
#43. So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.
Chris Rock
#44. And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.
Jerry Spinelli
#46. While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?
Michael Leunig
#47. To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed.
A.E. Coppard
#48. On bottom ... Fellows studied the blue and green Mackenzie plaid kilt laid out across his bed. He'd worn it before, at Christmas at Kilmorgan, feeling strange with wool wrapping his hips, air circulating his thighs. Scotsmen had to be mad.
Jennifer Ashley
#49. Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
Patrick McGoohan
#50. Do not be mad because someone is more successful than you are. What have you done lately to (en.hance), enhance your own success?
Jon Jones
#51. Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad. I'm too sharp for that.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#52. Do you mind my madness? Even if you're right that I can contain the rages, I will always be mad. I won't get better." "I know." Beth snuggled against his chest. "It's part of the very intriguing package that is Ian Mackenzie.
Jennifer Ashley
#53. She had been his first love, so maybe, in a way, she had the rightful claim to his heart. Maybe it was like how when you stepped out of the grocery store line to grab bread, no one could really be mad when you returned to your spot. It wasn't cutting if you had been there before.
Brit Bennett
#54. Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad.
Rick Riordan
#55. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
#56. You don't have to wear a sparkly dress all the time! You can wear something that's plain, really, it's okay. No one is going to be mad at you.
Mark Indelicato
#57. If you did that I wouldn't even be mad. I'd be dead.
Charles Reid
#58. Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise Pascal
#59. I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#60. You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving.
- Macey
Ally Carter
#61. It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there because we don't know the secret code, but it's real all the same.
Before I didn't know to be mad that we can't open Door, my head was too small to have Outside in it.
Emma Donoghue
#62. And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be mad, or that someone might think me mad. How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range?
Susanna Kaysen
#63. I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.
Caroline Leavitt
#64. I can't be mad at you, you harmless scrawny bastard.
John Green
#65. I know you are mad at me. I need you to be mad at me, Sky. But think I need you to still want me here with you even more.
Colleen Hoover
#66. I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.
Robert Walser
#67. When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.
Geoffrey Canada
#68. Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion.
Dan Pearce
#69. No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines
the final wish
is love.
Allen Ginsberg
#70. No offense, right. "No offense" stood for "I'm going to insult you, but you can't be mad at me.
Ilona Andrews
#71. I should be mad. I should hate her. I should judge her. But there is some madness in love.
Jackson Pearce
#72. I won't be mad at you because you gave me something no one else has: the ability to live even when I thought I was dead.
Alexandria Hampton
#73. I'm going to be mad at you for the rest of my life.
Cheryl Strayed
#74. Politicians, please, think of yourselves! Move to help Terri Schiavo, and no one will be mad at you, and you'll keep a human being alive.
Peggy Noonan
#75. Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
Sam Kinison
#76. Monsieur, you must be mad!
Box Five can never be had
For money, love or the world ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#77. You look beautiful sitting there spitting at me like a she-cat. All I have to do is look at you, and I lust. I'm going to take you back to the hotel and take off that delectable dress and make love to you until you don't have the energy to be mad at me anymore. Ian Connelly, Marquis of Derne
Karen Robards
#78. She has every reason to be mad. I just wish I could do something. She's no soldier like us. She's kind and gentle."
"Aye," Maven nodded in agreement. "Not all of us are built for it. What kind of world would it be if we were?
B.M. Tolbert
#79. Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don't know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be 'Mad-Eye.' Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.
J.K. Rowling
#80. We are only human. Don't be mad at yourself. Forgive yourself, forget the past and start over.
Jose N. Harris
#81. Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.
Max Ernst
#83. You know it's absolutely fine for people to disagree, to be mad at each other.
Eileen Cook
#84. Wait.
Is he mad at me? Oh, heck, no.
Because I'm mad at him.
And really, is there anything more annoying than someone who's mad at you when you're the one who's supposed to be mad? No. No, there is not.
Jana Aston
#86. Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.
Benny Hinn
#87. Hey, heads up. The hottest doctor in town just came by and coerced me into telling him where you were. I folded like a cheap suitcase. Sorry, but he's hard to say no to. Don't be mad. I owe you a cupcake.
Jill Shalvis
#88. Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.
David Bowick
#89. If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.
Whoopi Goldberg
#90. What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know ... . But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead - yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.
Katherine Mansfield
#91. I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.
Rodney King
#92. People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
G.K. Chesterton
#93. Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
Ann Brashares
#94. The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins
#95. I won't be mad, he'd told Tobin, but he was mad. Really mad. Not mad enough to kill a kid, of course not (probably of course not), but he wasn't going to let the little Judas-goat out of his sight, either.
Stephen King
#96. It has to be mad, if it's Love. If it isn't, it's just a fluke of nature
D.N. Joshi
#97. MADNESS Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity." The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means. SP-ST-62
Kahlil Gibran
#98. To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
Johnny Rich
#99. If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.
Bryan Greenberg
#100. I don't want to still be mad at them. But right now, I don't know how not to be.
Michelle Madow
