Mad quotes
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"We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey."
"Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it."
"Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down."
"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
"The Lover is ever drunk with Love. He is mad. She is free. He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy. Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything. But once we get drunk on that Love Whatever will be, will be."
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"You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!"
"People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad."
"There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four."
"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."
"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again."
"If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God."
"I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices"
"The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy."
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
"I’m not mad. I’m in a perfectly happy mood, you asshole."
"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."
"Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy."
"The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad."
"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."
"And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths."
"It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode."
"It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad."
"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."
"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
