Top 100 Go Mad Quotes
#1. The religion of cheerfulness, as Father Brown reminds us, is a cruel religion, and maybe the best way not to go mad is not to mind too much if you do go mad.2
Brennan Manning
#2. Because when you've been around forever, you have to find something outside yourself to believe in or go mad. I believe in humanity. I believe in you.
Tellulah Darling
#3. I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.
Imelda May
#4. I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
Natascha McElhone
#5. I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.
Woody Allen
#6. Me sins are great, and I'll burn for dem. But if ye never believe anyt'in' else, know dat I loved ye more den anyt'in'. Ye were me sanctuary. Me solace in a world gone mad. I'd endure a thousand deat's to go back and ensure ye did not feel one moment of pain.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#7. I recently published a new book. It's a Christian urban fantasy about mad science gone wrong. And then after I'd written that in a blurb I thought to myself - when does mad science ever go right?!
Greg Curtis
#8. I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
Antonin Artaud
#9. If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#10. I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.
Kirsty Gallacher
#11. How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things which are not.
John Keats
#12. we'd all go mad if we had to experience what life throws at you every day with the same shock and wailing intensity of just-born emotions.
Amy Conner
#13. Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
John Le Carre
#14. People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, "Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine."
Moses Malone
#15. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.
St. Anthony The Great
#16. Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#17. If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad ... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.
Una McCormack
#18. How do we get out of this circle?" I asked him.
"We kill him," he said.
"Good. Let's kill him and go home."
"I thought you'd never ask.
Ilona Andrews
#19. With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.
Dervla Murphy
#20. If human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad.
Alastair Reynolds
#21. They don't need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they're trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin
J.K. Rowling
#22. The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' from 1895. Chambers's conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad.
Paul Di Filippo
#23. People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would think they would go mad of it.
William Dean Howells
#24. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it!
Corrie Ten Boom
#25. Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.
Anna Funder
#26. You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
Eric Roth
#27. The youngest youngster vibrates with the shock of cannon firing, even though the sound may not be near enough to be heard," answered Coombe. "We're all vibrating unconsciously. We are shuddering consciously at the things we hear and are mad to put a stop to, before they go further.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#28. Five years ago I was in love with you so utterly I thought I might go mad from it.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#29. Someday you'll meet a girl, and if you marry her, the best advice I can give you is never go to bed mad,
Katherine Owen
#30. I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.
Sylvia Plath
#31. He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. Would you please tell me what you're thinking? Before I go mad?
Stephenie Meyer
#32. One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley
#33. If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.
Rachel Joyce
#34. Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart.
Ilona Andrews
#35. Every day I'd come home after school, pop the hood of my mom's car, put alligator clips on the battery, and wire into the house and go play on my computer. If I used it for too long, I'd wear down the car battery, and my mom would be all mad at me the next day.
Ryan Holmes
#36. They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.
George Harrison
#37. The human mind is not capable of comprehending or containing this world's agony.' Sidney Grice said, 'or we should all go mad.
M.R.C. Kasasian
#38. There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.
Monica Bellucci
#39. Looking around, I felt a mad desire to go shopping for pink flamingo and garden gnome lawn ornaments. I could do a midnight visit, plant one of each in every yard.
Gayla Drummond
#40. For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'
Rich Sommer
#41. You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
Jonathan Coe
#42. It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.
Sue Townsend
#43. Live in dreams for too long and ye go mad - ye can never wake up prop'ly, ye can never get the hang o' reality again.
Terry Pratchett
#44. Take a soldier and put him right in front of a cannon in a battle and fire it at him, and he'll go on hoping, but read out a certain death sentence to that same soldier, and he'll go mad, or start to weep.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.
Swami Vivekananda
#46. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already.
Bram Stoker
#47. Even then I would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear wan face, at the mere sound of your raucous young voice
Vladimir Nabokov
#48. Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.
Glen Duncan
#49. Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
#50. The period of time it takes a pictsie to go from normal to mad fighting mood is so tiny it can't be measured on the smallest clock.
Terry Pratchett
#51. Would go on a mad Parcheesi jag at Richie Tozier's house, making blockades, sending each other back with great abandon, deliberating exactly how to split the roll of the dice while rain
Stephen King
#52. A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point ... and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#53. But instead of thinking about my book and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting my footsteps until I feel about to go mad.
Thomas Bernhard
#54. As if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.
Angela Carter
#55. For all that I announce at intervals that I want to go mad, it is apparently impossible: beyond me, beneath me. It took This for me to learn that I am a citadel of sanity.
Philip Roth
#57. You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.
Joel Osteen
#58. A loon thought he was Frank Sinatra and every time Frank came on TV or radio the loon would go mad, impostor!
Stephen Richards
#60. I feel fuzzy, like there's something slowing my thinking. It's horrifying, this fuzziness, because right now is when I have to be sharp, to think more clearly than ever before. I'm scared. I think this is what it feels like to go mad: to not know whether you can trust your own thoughts.
Steven Schlozman
#61. Go ahead, make me mad, I'll just use you in one of my books.
Millicent Ashby
#62. Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised?
I'll say as they say, and persever so,
And in this mist at all adventures go.
William Shakespeare
#63. Stay calm. Don't go getting moon mad. Moon sad.
Moon morons.
Sally Gardner
#64. Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
Marianne Williamson
#65. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles Mackay
#66. Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
M. John Harrison
#67. In this atmosphere
Where you have to go
perennially crazy
only to survive,
Which auspicious moment
should I choose to become mad?
Suman Pokhrel
#68. I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.
Suzanne Finnamore
#69. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum
#70. I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.
Virginia Woolf
#71. Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
David Foster Wallace
#72. It was remarkable how Dean could go mad and then suddenly continue with his soul - which I think is wrapped up in a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road - calmly and sanely as though nothing had happened.
Jack Kerouac
#73. It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.
C.P. Snow
#74. In fiction if nowhere else, I must have a little meaning, a little coherence, or I will go mad.
Anne Rice
#75. Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
William Rounseville Alger
#76. Daphne's thought in Nation:
This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards.
Terry Pratchett
#77. It's mad love. The kind that makes no sense. The kind that is bigger than anything I've ever experienced. The kind that ensnares your soul and never lets go.
Jewel E. Ann
#78. If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.
Brenda Ueland
#79. Geniuses don't go mad," he said. "That's what people don't understand. They get out so far out that the water is like glass and they can see for miles and see so much, and in ways people have never seen before.
Steven Hall
#80. Belial pounds on the door and we both go still. We're panting like mad. Nothing like a dose of your girlfriend's father to douse the kindled fires. Anna giggles in a very mischievous way and I grin.
My lovely little vixen.
Wendy Higgins
#81. Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
Harper Lee
#82. Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a different direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.
Margaret Atwood
#83. I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
Freddie Mercury
#84. He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.
Douglas Adams
#85. L.A. scares the crap out of me. I feel if I have to work out four hours a day, and count the calories of everything I put in my mouth, and have Botox at 22, and obsess about how I look the whole time, I will go mad. I will absolutely lose it.
Emma Watson
#86. Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.
I turn my face towards it and I laugh.
Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad.
I laugh again.
Some people think that she's already mad, I think.
David Almond
#87. Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad?
Stephenie Meyer
#88. You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#89. I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
Candy Crowley
#90. Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
Spider Robinson
#91. Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.
H.P. Lovecraft
#92. I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church ...
John Malkovich
#93. If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit!
Michel De Montaigne
#94. The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
Tom Peters
#95. A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
Rafael Sabatini
#96. Artemis remembered a few lines from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "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.
Eoin Colfer
#97. I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
Ja Rule
#98. Maybe this is madness. 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
#99. She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.
Anne Perry
#100. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
G.K. Chesterton
