Quotes About Mad Life

#1. A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it's moorings or orientation ... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

Ben Okri

#2. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

Ben Okri

#3. And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

Aaron McGruder

#4. 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

#5. No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think
that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

Gaston Leroux

#6. They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad. This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.

Lev Shestov

#7. Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet without it, how can one make sense of life's madness?

Maryrose Wood

#8. There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

Corey Harris

#9. I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history [Mad men]. This guys who knows precisely who he is, yet leaves us time after time hoping desperately for him to finally grab control of his life and some responsibility for those around him.

Chris Matthews

#11. I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Samuel Johnson

#12. I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

John Lydon

#13. Welcome to the Carnival of Life, where dreams are a reality and reality is dreams gone mad.

L. Scott Ward

#14. A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

Honore De Balzac

#15. I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation..

Paulo Coelho

#16. When something upsets you in life, you only have two choices: Get over it or die mad.

Charline Ratcliff

#17. Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?

John Bunyan

#18. It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

Walter Mosley

#20. 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

#21. I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Especially not someone that I've only just met. I'd have to be stark, raving mad to give up my life. I don't know how I can trust you. I. Don't. Know. You.

Sofia Grey

#22. I couldn't imagine it, living a pristine life in this big Georgian house and everything. It seemed heinous. So I left him. I thought I'd go mad, if I stayed.

Sarah Rayner

#23. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages ...

Hermann Hesse

#24. I made my life, the same way it looks like you're gonna make yours - out of pride and stubbornness and too much anger. You better think hard, Ruth Anne, about what you want and who you're mad at. You better think hard.

Dorothy Allison

#25. 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

#26. best things in life are mad, you know, darling. Instinctive," he said. "You don't understand that yet . . . but, in time, you will. That's where the magic lies. And that, my darling, is what you are lacking in your life." "What?

Ella Carey

#27. My father some times he goes crazy, but sometimes nerves, crazy and mad in one place it's like daemon have started to control his life so he ended his life.

Deyth Banger

#28. Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real ... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand ...

Harold Bell Wright

#29. Kenny, when's the last time you had a physical," Roddy asks.
"What're you...the designated driver of my life?"

"Mad Dog House

Mark Rubinstein

#30. 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

#31. After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

Taryn Manning

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

David Cronenberg

#35. Ah Ratty, what good times we'll have," said Mad Jack. "Just you and me, Ratty. We'll go cuttin' them reeds together, and if you're good we'll go to the circus when it comes to town and see the clowns. I love them clowns, Ratty. We'll have a good life together. Yes we will. Oh yes.

Angie Sage

#36. I've been mad as hell. So goddamn tired. Mad and tired without knowing it. If you're still following me, if you're still here - you are my people and I've been looking for you my entire life.

Paul Dore

#37. Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

#38. If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

Ned Kelly

#39. For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.

Noriko Ogiwara

#40. A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life, and a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, say, or a cathedral, or myself.

Anonymous

#41. The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.

Paulo Coelho

#42. All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them ... They might get mad.

Meg Cabot

#43. Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

Tim O'Brien

#44. Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

Robert Jordan

#45. Life is mad all the time. Our task is to not let it make us mad in the process.

Sarah MacLean

#46. Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.

Swami Vivekananda

#47. What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

David Gemmell

#48. 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

#49. A life without having loved someone is a life never lived.

Abhijit Naskar

#50. Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

Ray Bradbury

#51. All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).

Jack Kerouac

#52. Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

Colin Mochrie

#53. I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

Kendall Hailey

#54. You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Douglas Coupland

#55. If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land

Pablo Neruda

#56. What did he say? You can't always pick your friends. Well, he's damn right there. I have two friends here: a fifteen year old who sees people in colours and a salsa-mad Dutch woman. I didn't pick them, they just turned up in my life, and I'm really glad.

Kirsty Eagar

#57. I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.

Anne Roiphe

#58. Ray, don't get mad just because I say yes to life. I like to keep myself available to the universe, because it brings me wisdom. Maybe you don't just want me to soar.

Douglas Coupland

#59. When it comes to break ups:
Don't get mad ... just live a better life and forget about it!

Timothy Pina

#60. My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.

Jonathan Lethem

#61. 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

#62. Life's short. Don't be mad. It's a waste of time.

Blake Crouch

#63. We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#64. If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

Lorraine Heath

#65. ... insanity is never reasonable.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#66. 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

#67. I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

Robyn Davidson

#68. Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

August Strindberg

#69. '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

#70. 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

#71. It's ok to be mad at god when your life is miserable. It's alright to ask for his help and to be upset when he does not answer you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#72. Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You're ... you're tearing me apart!

Serra Elinsen

#73. You never get mad," she said when their server left the table. "Except at me."
"That's not true," he said tightly. "Torie can get me going."
"Torie doesn't count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#74. While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad.

Salman Rushdie

#75. The phrase she was so mad she could chew nails and spit screws ran though his mind at her look. Damn. He had really fucked things up between them. Why hadn't he taken her calls again?
Oh, yeah, to give her a chance at a good life.

Tamara Hoffa

#76. Im not angry. I have never been angry in my entire life. The only thing that makes me angry is people videorecording me. Making me mad. NOW TURN IT OFF!

Joe Jonas

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. Explain yourself when it is a must, but sometimes, in life, keep quit when people think you are mad or you shall speak and speak how mad they think you are!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#80. I probably always will be. But I've been mad all my life, and I finally figured out that I couldn't keep carrying that with me. It's too heavy and I'm too tired. Time will take care of it, like it does everything else.

Ayana Mathis

#81. I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe that's because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.

Crystal Woods

#82. Yeah, I love your hateful messiahs and gods, as I cherish all idiots, and mad dogs.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#83. In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Graham Greene

#84. Maybe ... in a way, this coffee reminds me of something. Maybe ... maybe only a philosopher or a mad man would make this connection, but it's a little like life. I mean it's powerful going down and that doesn't even take into account the aftertaste, which really takes getting used to.

Bette Greene

#85. I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell

Garry Shandling

#86. That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

Laura Schlessinger

#87. Mad? Is one who has solved the secret of life to be considered mad?

Edward T. Lowe Jr.

#88. How very odd, to be sure!' 'What is?' She walked on, her brow a little furrowed. 'Wishing to kiss someone you never saw before in your life. It seems quite mad-brained to me, besides showing a sad want of particularity.

Georgette Heyer

#89. I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret.

Shirley Jackson

#90. Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

Matt Smith

#91. Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#92. I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#93. Please sell $10,000 worth of stock - we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.

Harry Crosby

#94. I love you all; I love you more than life itself, but you're all fucking mad.

Ozzy Osbourne

#95. The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

Charles Bukowski

#96. I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Jennifer Aniston

#97. Where that rage comes from? Partly, I would say it's a sense that a life can be taken away from you, quickly, in a dumb second for the dumbest reason. That makes me mad, defensive and protective.

Michka Assayas

#98. I was a mass of doubts now. I believed in nothing, not even in my own obsession. I walked through the ruins of life, even fearing, in my more lucid moments, that I might go mad.

Mario De Sa-Carneiro

#99. 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

#100. But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.
The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wife
which made me worse. I howled in my cell.
If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell?

Carol Ann Duffy