Quotes of: Being-mad Keyword

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

Life of Pi

Why does turning on a TV these days require three remotes with ninety buttons? Why?

Mad About the Boy

Who is that?” “Your replacement.” “You replaced me with a shaved poodle?” “He's got mad skills.

Magic Bleeds

His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.

The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

Twisted Creek

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

Orthodoxy

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

…faith is like a mad beast— once it’s broken out, it can no longer be controlled.

The Poisoned Pilgrim

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.

Voice of Reason

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.

Write like no one is reading

If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

Wisdom

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

The Year of Secret Assignments

People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy.

ZA

Just one moment of madness Can rescind a lifetime of moments. Lord Heikan

Zachania Tome Two

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

Kirsty Gallacher

If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.

Jessie Ware

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

Julian Casablancas

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Peter Carey

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

Peter Mayle