Quotes of: Being-mad Keyword

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

What Mad Pursuit

Quite often you drive me mad, but more often I'm just mad about you. And that darling, that's the best love there is.

Write like no one is reading

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Isn't it the task of the Holy Spirit to introduce some madness and intoxication into the world? Why this propensity for balance and safety? Don't we all long for one moment of raw risk, one moment of divine madness?

Ron Rolheiser

Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.

Ashley Monroe

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because ...

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because t...

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger ... cruelty beyond belief. I have heard the singing from taverns and the moans from bundles of filth on the streets. I have been a soldier and seen my comrades fall ...

Man of La Mancha

they ask why do i look so sad they wonder if there is something that makes me mad haven't they understood it all by now? i'm neither mad nor sad i'm just a poet in a dark outfit i'm just a melancholic soul in a hypocritical world i'm just an idealist...

Love

A good man, but his mad dog won't let you speak to him.

Yiddish

Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?" "Yes. They're prideful and tend to sexual misconduct. Also, the situation of being in government tends to drive you mad." "But are they more virtuous...

The Gone-Away World

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fet...

Happiness and Contemplation

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 be...

Beautiful Darkness

Would you kick her ass already?" Dick said, shoving me back toward Missy. "Come on, Stretch, man up. You do better than this! Get mad." I nodded, rolling a dislocated shoulder back into place with a grunt and staggering back toward my opponent. Behin...

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

Far from the Madding Crowd

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Far from the Madding Crowd