Top 46 The World Is Going Mad Quotes
#1. The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.
Edward Robb Ellis
#2. The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.
Cyprian
#3. The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.
Jim Butcher
#4. 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
#5. Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.
Annie Lennox
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity.
Deyth Banger
#9. I had no time to make a world of my own: I had to stay fixed like Atlas, my feet on the elephant's back and the elephant on the tortoise's back. To inquire on what the tortoise stood would be to go mad.
Henry Miller
#10. 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
#11. The world needed changing - that I knew. Global warming threatened to give us all a lethal tan; war and poverty decimated whole nations; crops worldwide were shriveling; even our brethren beasts menaced us with their monkey pox and bird flu and mad cow disease.
Jeff Deck
#12. A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
Sam Abell
#13. Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.
Alan Moore
#14. 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
#15. Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
John Cusack
#16. In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.
Homer
#17. 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
#18. I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the world. I understood how a man could be mad enough to slice off his own ear, just to get back the person he loved most in the world.
Jodi Baker
#19. 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
#20. When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion
Anthony Storr
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. It is a very mad world. Blind people are leading other blind people. And nobody raises the question: where are we going and why?
Osho
#25. Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.
John Larkins
#28. America and Western Europe are on a moneymaking, pleasure-mad spree unparalleled in the history of the world. God is generally ignored or ridiculed. Church members in many cases are only halfhearted Christians. Judgment is coming.
Billy Graham
#29. Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#30. When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
George Bernard Shaw
#31. Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
Anthony Burgess
#32. If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.
Bill Maher
#33. The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
John Lennon
#34. 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
#35. 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
#37. 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
#38. If all the people break, and all the world breaks, and everyone and everything goes mad, then I can be normal, just like everyone else, right?
Jun Mochizuki
#39. 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
#40. He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche)
Rafael Sabatini
#41. 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
#42. 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
#44. You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.
Anthony Horowitz
#45. In a world gone mad, we will not spank the monkey, but the monkey will spank us
Francesco Totti
#46. Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as normal, if he were going to survive.
Michael Moorcock
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