When The World Goes Mad Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.

Anthony Horowitz

#4. In a world gone mad, we will not spank the monkey, but the monkey will spank us

Francesco Totti

#5. 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

#6. War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Jonathan Swift

#7. The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

Jim Butcher

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The world's gone mad: joining it is the only solution.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Sam Abell

#16. 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

#17. There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.

Carolyn Elliott

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." (the novel Scaramouche)

Rafael Sabatini

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.

John Larkins

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

John Lennon

#28. 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

#29. Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Anthony Burgess

#30. Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. 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

#32. In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane

Craig Nicholls