Top 100 Quotes About Being Mad
#1. It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.
Ice-T
#2. If you're going to expend energy being mad about Photoshop, you'll also have to be mad about earrings. No one's ears are that sparkly!
Tina Fey
#3. She's upset."
"Screaming upset? or crying upset?"
"Does it matter?"
"Yes. There's a difference between being mad at a guy and being a teary mess over him. For example: Deanna is mad and can plot your destruction; I was a teary mess and could barely crawl out of bed every day.
Sylvia Day
#4. Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Irving Stone
#5. To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical ... smoke grass.
Ken Kesey
#6. Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Amy Clampitt
#7. You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.
Carlos Castaneda
#8. Being mad at a drug addict for doing what drug addicts do, is like being mad at a shark for doing what sharks do, or being mad at a cockroach for doing what cockroaches do.
Oliver Markus
#9. Being mad, he failed to take into account the scheming of irresponsible politicians. Being mad, he believed that other governments would act in accordance with the principles of mercy and common sense.
Vladimir Nabokov
#11. There is a pleasure sure
In being mad, which none but madmen know.
Dryden, The Spanish Friar II, i
Gerald Durrell
#12. I went up to the tower. I thought I might find the woman and the boy there, in bed together. Or the boy and his father, enjoying some quality time, a dead man and a mad boy chuckling and joshing and exchanging their stories of being dead and being mad.
Stephen Gregory
#13. There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
Denis Diderot
#14. There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards.
Blanco
#15. In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.
Barack Obama
#17. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad ... How can'st thou endure without being mad?
Herman Melville
#18. Being mad at someone for acting exactly the way you assume they'll act is no one's fault but your own.
Sarah Addison Allen
#19. Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.
Jayni Chase
#20. He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn't appear to belong to our world. But that didn't seem the same as being mad.
Marcel Theroux
#21. Everyone says she's mad.'
'How do they know?' I asked.
'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.'
'Is that being mad?'
'No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.
Ruskin Bond
#22. The worst madman is the one who fails to consider the possibility of somebody else being mad too.
Vladimir Nabokov
#23. I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century ... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.
Peter Wolf
#24. There's a pleasure being mad that only the madman knows.
Elly Griffiths
#25. I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
Lydia Lunch
#26. The few psychiatrists I respect always talk about people being mad. Use the short, simple, true words... "Mad" has the right sound to it. It's an ordinary word, a word which tells us how lunacy might come and call like a delivery van.
Julian Barnes
#27. Everyone else has a work party,'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.
Sally Brampton
#28. You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.
Zach Galifianakis
#29. Of all mad matches never was the like
Being mad herself, she's madly mated.
William Shakespeare
#30. Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate
with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel
she cannot help being mad.
Charlotte Bronte
#31. I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
Sting
#32. The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes
#34. I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.
Miuccia Prada
#35. Oh, now... being mad's not all that bad.
A.G. Howard
#36. 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
#37. You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.
David Markson
#38. My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks because I got to be like a mad scientist.
Troian Bellisario
#39. You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
Helen Fielding
#40. One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day's work?'
David Heinemeier Hansson
#41. You would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. It's far more common than you might think.
-Angela the Herbalist
Christopher Paolini
#42. I can hear the bunny all the time now. Even when I'm outside, under my tree.
I'm mad at the bunny for being sick and bothering me.
For being...alive.
Sam Kieth
#43. I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.
Julia Sweeney
#44. Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals.
G.K. Chesterton
#45. I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.
Emily Giffin
#46. She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.
J.M. Coetzee
#47. I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
Anne Bronte
#48. It's not like you're being fake, it's just the way you color it, like a guitar player uses pedals or different effects. That's why I get so mad about people who are down on vocal reverb. It's not a crutch, people, it's an aesthetic choice!
Kelly Hogan
#49. It wasn't that she was mad at him for being uninjured. She was so relieved she could have vomited, actually.
Sarah J. Maas
#50. 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
#51. Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
Cara Buono
#52. He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it ... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.
Donald Barthelme
#53. If being in love made a person mad, then being away from the one you loved made you a lunatic.
Nicole Williams
#54. I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles De Lint
#55. Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.
Paulo Coelho
#56. I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.
Robbie Williams
#57. I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
Casey Stengel
#58. Life is much too short to waste time wallowing in the past especially when the future hands you a second chance.
Chakotay Talking to B'Ellana (When she asks him why he isn't mad her for lying about her and Miral being dead)
Book:Unworthy: pg. 121
Kirsten Beyer
#59. 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
#60. If people could hear our thoughts, very few of us would escape from being locked away as mad men.
Jacinto Benavente
#61. It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out ...
N. T. Wright
#62. My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.
Sam Houston
#63. Then, people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple- When in actuality, women ARE complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy . But because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.
Tavi Gevinson
#64. Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.
Tracy Morgan
#65. I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.
Justin Bieber
#66. If someone was ... you know ... going a bit weird in the head-"
"Mental, he means," said Wobbler, behind him.
"Just a bit Over-Strained," said Johnny. "I mean... would they know? Themselves?"
"Well, everyone thinks they're a bit mad,' said Yo-less. "It's part of being normal.
Terry Pratchett
#67. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical. And he never goes on sitting there after sunset, with the whole place getting dark.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
G.K. Chesterton
#69. Am I the right guy? I don't know, but I'm the guy being asked, and the last thing I want to do is miss an opportunity or make God mad, so I just keep saying yes.
Bob Goff
#70. Some people are so broken they get mad at you for being whole.
ANA
#71. It definitely puts a strain on family life - I miss them like mad. Being a working mother I've been juggling house and career from day one. I want to hold out for telly for the second half of the year.
Louise Jameson
#72. Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.
Noel Coward
#73. If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.
Azealia Banks
#74. How is it that you can go from decent human being to complete jackass in zero-point-two seconds? Did they teach you that in The Eye?"
He stopped, and his eyes glided over my lips.
"Actually, I'm just trying to see if I can make you mad enough to kiss me again.
Rachel Hawkins
#75. I'm just used to leaving and being like, "I feel like I wasted their time and I definitely wasted my own time." I often leave auditions thinking that that person is now permanently mad at me.
Jon Gabrus
#76. I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but I decided I was going to be an artist but I'm really mad for art history and the masters mostly.
Robert Barry
#77. I don't want your apology, least of all for being afraid," he said. "Without fear, what would we be? Mad dogs with foam on our muzzles and shit drying on our hocks.
Stephen King
#78. 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Michael Sheen
#79. Met a mad scientist that wants to save the world. His only problem in life is not being able to find love. How ironic!
Robin Sacredfire
#80. Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.
Alasdair Gray
#81. I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
Park Chan-wook
#82. That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.
Emma Cline
#83. And everyone knows I'm a mad scientist. It's amazing what everyone knows, isn't it? Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. But that's neither here nor there.
Mira Grant
#84. Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull ... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
Dr. Seuss
#85. To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?
Charles Fuller
#86. It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or whatnot, and jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing a fancy lead guitar. And they get mad when I sing a heartfelt emotional song and if there's an album full of them.
Butch Walker
#87. Everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.
Harry Crews
#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. I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
John Pomfret
#90. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
George Orwell
#91. I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure ... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.
Shamir
#92. I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.
Kami Garcia
#93. I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'
Mitch Hedberg
#94. In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.
R.D. Laing
#95. I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry.
Rich Sommer
#96. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
William Shakespeare
#97. When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.
Lucille Ball
#98. I HATE FIGHTING. I hate being wrong, but I hate fighting more than I hate being wrong. I'm just not good at the grudge-holding thing. I get mad, scream about it and let go.
Claire Contreras
#99. To get mad at being called a "little boy" is a proof that you indeed are one
CLAMP
#100. If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus
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