Being Mad Quotes:

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

- Sting

topic: Mad, Madness, Being Mad

There are worse things than being mad.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Wisdom, Mad, Being Mad

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

- John Dryden

topic: Depression, Mad, Mental Illness, Insanity And Sanity, Being Mad

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

- Jack Kerouac

topic: People, Mad, Favorite Book, Cowgirls, Beatnik

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

- Ice T

source: Ice-T, Douglas Century (2011). “Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood”, p.248, One World

topic: Mad, Being Real, Right Thing, Being Mad

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

source: Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mad, Doubt, Courses, Being Mad

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

- Irving Stone

topic: Mad, Madmen, Pleasant, Being Mad

One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.

- Diogenes Laertius

topic: Thinking, Men, Mad, Middle Finger, Breadth

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

- Jayni Chase

source: "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Mad, Hopeful, Being Sad, Being Mad

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mad, Half, Kind, Being Mad

I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.

- Miuccia Prada

topic: Girl, Shoes, Mad, Other Girl, Red Shoes

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

topic: People, Mad, Trophies, Being Mad

Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Christian, Lying, Hate, Final Words, Being Mad

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

topic: Health, Thinking, Doctors, Being Mad, Safety Net

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

topic: Mad, Busy, Sympathetic, Being Mad

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

source: David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”

topic: Life, Mad, Anxiety, Being Mad

You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Dream, Wall, Live Life, Being Mad

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

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.246, Penguin

topic: Sympathy, Hate, Mad, Being Mad

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Mad, Psychological, Harm, Being Mad

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

topic: Stupid, Mad, Peaceful, Being Stupid, Being Mad

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

- Norman O. Brown

topic: Mad, Way, Madness, Being Mad

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

- Amy Clampitt

topic: Writing, Mad, Inspired, Being Mad

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

- Diogenes

topic: Men, Mad, Insanity, Being Mad, Madness And Insanity