Top 100 Mad Mad World Quotes
#1. It's a mad, mad world when your best friend is a dog and your second-best friend is an automatic rifle, but such was life in the Aze.
John Green
#2. I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
Dick Cavett
#4. Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#5. Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
Anthony Burgess
#6. The world spins despite me, not because of me, he muttered. Last week, one of his coworkers died after twenty-five years of service. There was an email and eulogy sent by one of the managers - and then a mad scramble by everyone else to loot his office supplies.
Wesley Chu
#7. Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.
John Larkins
#8. The new 'Mad Max' movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. I have a small part in 'Mad Max.' I play the old geezer who remembers what steak tasted like.
David Letterman
#9. I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
Edward Bond
#10. There is much of our world, we do not see. So, it is easy to assume nothing exciting happens in our quadrant of space, but we are dead wrong. Crazy, impossible things occur all the time. We simply need to know where to look.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#11. We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#12. You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.
Anthony Horowitz
#13. In a world gone mad, we will not spank the monkey, but the monkey will spank us
Francesco Totti
#15. The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.
Jim Butcher
#16. She couldn't decide if he was a bit mad or if the world moved too slowly for him. Perhaps a little of both.
Andrew Mayne
#17. But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.
Matt De La Pena
#18. Mogadishu was like the postapocalyptic world of Mel Gibson's Mad Max movies, a world ruled by roving gangs of armed thugs. They were here to rout the worst of the warlords and restore sanity and civilization.
Mark Bowden
#19. Family prayer is a fourth vital link in the chain of spiritual strength - a strength we are trying to build to protect us from a world gone mad. Practicing prayer as a family, not just a flippant blessing before a meal, can give us the security we need.
Billy Graham
#20. August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.
George Monbiot
#21. If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
Ramakrishna
#22. Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.
Bilal Tanweer
#23. I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me.
Riley Keough
#24. We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)
Ronald Reagan
#25. Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.
Ken Livingstone
#26. It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World
Kevin Spacey
#27. The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art-because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I've done-is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon
David Grann
#29. I'm not totally mad at you. I'm just sad. You're all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.
Haruki Murakami
#30. Percy swallowed back his anger. He wasn't sure if he was mad at Annabeth, or his dream, or the entire Greek/Roman world that had endured and shaped human history for five thousand years with one goal in mind: to make Percy Jackson's life suck as much as possible.
Anonymous
#32. It just makes me mad. All the stupid arbitrary shit."
"It makes you want to overthrow the world."
"On a daily basis.
David Levithan
#33. I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had.
Tears For Fears
#34. No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.
George Whitefield
#35. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.
G.K. Chesterton
#36. My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.
John Dryden
#38. When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.
Barry Beck
#39. I think that's necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that's out there - and that's true of the natural world as well as the mad-made world. Clearly, it's easier in the mad-made world because it has already been structured.
Bruce Barnbaum
#40. Sometimes I feel mad at her. Feel like I could scratch her hair right off her head. But then I think, Shug got a right to live too. She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don't take none of her rights.
Alice Walker
#41. To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
Eugene O'Neill
#42. Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.
Thomas Raymond Kelly
#43. In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
Graham Greene
#44. A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.
Chaka Khan
#45. I left mad behind a long time ago. The world it is the way it is.I can only fix my little piece of it
Holly Black
#46. To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction of today's and what we would now call mental disorders were often understood as religious ecstasies or diabolical possessions.
Mike Jay
#47. But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.
Voltaire
#48. On Ludwig II
"He is not mad enough to be locked up but too abnormal to manage comfortably in the world with reasonable people".
Empress Elisabeth Of Austria
#49. The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad
Heinrich Heine
#50. Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let the statistics that someone else created affect you.
Esther Hicks
#51. THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD. YOU MIGHT have argued against that contention twenty years ago, but if you argue it in our time, you only prove that you, too, live in delusion. In
Dean Koontz
#52. Stripped of monarchy and magic spells, he was just a man in a mad world looking for the girl who shared his heart.
Alethea Kontis
#53. At this horror I sank nearly to the lichened earth, transfixed with a dread not of this nor any world, but only of the mad spaces between the stars.
H.P. Lovecraft
#54. Murdered man anywhere. Everything belonging to him had been destroyed. He himself had burned what had been below-stairs. The world would simply say that he was mad.
Oscar Wilde
#55. Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.
L. Ron Hubbard
#56. Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.
Charles Bukowski
#57. A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-
Then you've a hunch was the music meant ... hunger and night and the stars.
Robert W. Service
#58. This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people.
Lee Roberson
#59. I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg
#60. I love what I'm doing. And the world is so mad at everybody. If I do something to make people smile, I'm going to say, I got you. For that moment, if it don't last, I made you forget about the other thing you might have been thinking about.
Buddy Guy
#61. Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. Look right through me, look right through me.
Gary Jules
#63. The world she knew suddenly was full of innocent little girls turned mad.
Ronald Malfi
#64. We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.
Albert Camus
#65. The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other to the world's end.
C.S. Lewis
#66. Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second
Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole
Like some pocket history of the world, so general
As to constitute a sob or wail
John Ashbery
#67. Why the heck do we allow the media to ever tell us someone is gross? It makes me so mad. 99% of the world has flaws.
Shantel VanSanten
#68. As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.
Guy Sajer
#69. You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.
Mango Wodzak
#70. Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
Prince Harry
#71. Mum's mobile was the most immoblie cell phone in the world. It often lived on the top of the bookshelf closest to the front door. It was there so she'd see it before she left the house. The trouble was, Mum was alwayd leaving the house in a mad rush and the mobile stayed put.
Catherine Bateson
#72. The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
D.H. Lawrence
#73. 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
#74. The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself.
Emma Stone
#75. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Rafael Sabatini
#76. The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
Phil Ochs
#77. We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.
Jeannette Rankin
#78. Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.
Debbie Ford
#79. Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only your living, breathing self, not a citizen of any state, not a stake in that infernal game, the place where only what reason you have can still work to some reasonable effect in a world gone mad.
Stefan Zweig
#80. Keeping one's attitude positive, especially when the world conspires to make us mad, is one of the great accomplishments of life.
Brendon Burchard
#81. Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
George Orwell
#82. They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel Lee
#83. Dillon; somewhere in there is the guy I met four years ago. The decent one that wasn't always so fucking mad at the world. I get why you do the shit you do, but take it from someone who knows, it's not worth it.
Melyssa Winchester
#84. We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.
Mark Burnett
#85. We're all a little mad, aren't we?
Especially if we have a heart and yet must deal with the world.
Sylvia Maultash Warsh
#86. 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
#87. avoided explanation, and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created. I had a feeling that I should be supposed mad, and this for ever chained my tongue, when I would have given the whole world to have confided the fatal secret.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#88. If I was in my sane mind, I'd contemplate and try to find a meaning to of all this. But this is the mad world I am a living in.
Cameron Jace
#89. Sometimes I wonder if I'm going mad. Perhaps it is due to the pressure of knowing that I must somehow bear the burden of an entire world. Perhaps it is caused by the death I have seen, the friends I have lost. The friends I have been forced to kill.
Brandon Sanderson
#90. I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.
Chris Lowe
#91. For to Ade, ... the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.
Dorothy Day
#92. A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax
#93. Love may be the one thing in this world today that is not mad, sir. For, what could be more sane than to risk dying for what we can't live without?
Jeffrey Perren
#94. I'm very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang.
Katori Hall
#95. Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad. And then I think, "Aw, who cares?" And then I think, "Hey, what's for supper?
Jack Handy
#96. The people are all ghouls, and everything is ghostly. Everything is a ghoulish replica of the real world, a replica, a ghoul, all soiled, everything sordid. It's like being mad, Ursula.
Anonymous
#97. The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
Lorna Luft
#98. The world is mad, but let's not get angry about it.
George Hammond
#99. If you're not mad at the world, you don't have what it takes
Sun Ra
#100. 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
