Quotes of: Being-mad Keyword

There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.

Matteo Renzi

You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you’re trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don’t, though. I’m me and I’m good at it.

Angelmaker

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.

The Hollow March

To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an easy collapse into the madness of an increasingly chaotic world and represent another way.

Heroes and Villains

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.

Just One Year

It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

Katherine's Journal

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.

The Sherlockian

If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.

Masks of the Illuminati

Since my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.

A Mixture of Madness

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

The Meaning of Madness

I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.

A Mixture of Madness

Why can’t I remember that not once have I ever seen a coin, whether grimy copper or bright gold, that had but one side.

A Mixture of Madness

Some men simply refuse to appear insulted. But then, having felt the sting from the slap on their cheek, know just where to slip the knife, their smile never fading.

A Mixture of Madness

An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.

Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

You want to count, Gabrielle? One! She sucked in a breath, mad enough the words slid right out. You asshole, one!

Make Me, Sir

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports