Mad Real World Quotes

#1. We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Seneca The Younger

#2. Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.

Steven Knight

#3. It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

Dani Shapiro

#4. If he does not come to me, then,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever.

Jane Austen

#5. 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

#6. To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory.

Marty Rubin

#7. I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable.

Sylvia Plath

#8. I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

Joni Mitchell

#9. Maybe it was a consequence of reaching the end of the end, finding out the dark, mad, gleaming tale had concluded the only way it could in the real world
with mortal people doing mortal things, a father and daughter, facing their deaths.

Marisha Pessl

#10. 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