Mad Quotes

We are all born mad. Some remain so. (Samuel Beckett)
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. View quote
Salvador Dalí
If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles. View quote
Sophocles
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In a mad world, only the mad are sane! View quote
Akira Kurosawa
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. View quote
George Eliot
Everyone is more or less mad on one point. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. View quote
Robertson Davies
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. (David Cronenberg)
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim. View quote
Christopher Morley
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. View quote
Herodotus
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. View quote
Umberto Eco
Get mad, then get over it. View quote
Colin Powell
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. View quote
George Santayana
All poets are mad. View quote
Robert Burton
First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you. View quote
Tony Benn
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. View quote
Charles Mackay
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. (Voltaire)
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. View quote
Euripides
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? View quote
Charles de Lint
The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person. View quote
John Forbes Nash