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Mad Quotes (page 31)

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...) Oscar Wilde
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. John Steinbeck
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. Eugene O'Neill
So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my sufferance, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. Jack Kerouac
Big Jim - "Take a good look, pal - this is what incompetency, false hope, and too much informations gets you. They're just unhappy and disappointed now, but when they get over that, they'll be mad. We're gonna need more police. Stephen King
Nick Hornby quote: "You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive..."
You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad. Nick Hornby
George R. R. Martin quote: "Is it so far from madness to wisdom?"
Is it so far from madness to wisdom? George R. R. Martin
Sue Townsend quote: "I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally,..."
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees. Sue Townsend
And this? Aldhelm of Malmesbury. Listen to this page: 'Primitus pantorum procerum poematorum pio potissimum paternoque presertim privilegio panegiricum poemataque passim prosatori sub polo promulgatas.' ... The words all begin with the same letter!"The men of my islands are all a bit mad," William said proudly. Umberto Eco
Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad. August Strindberg
Alfred Lord Tennyson quote: "This madness has come on us for our sins."
This madness has come on us for our sins. Alfred Lord Tennyson
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves. Herman Hesse
Charles Bukowski quote: "The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and..."
The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination. Charles Bukowski
C. S. Lewis quote: "The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help..."
The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen. C. S. Lewis
I add my oath of protection to the bone,' he said in a whisper. 'To you now and to any child you may bear in the future. I would trade no day I spend with you for a life of safe slavery. I accepted the post of Seeker of my own free will. And if Darken Rahl takes the whole world into madness, then we will die with a sword in our hands, not chains on our wings. We will not allow it to be easy for them to kill us; they will pay a high price. We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in... Terry Goodkind

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