Mad Person Quotes (page 2)

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• single
• personal
• personality

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• manly
• personality
• adorable

What madness! Yet she would do it, if she could force herself. She'd become, she believed, a stronger person: a willful, resolute. Like the man who adored her, reckless. Joyce Carol Oates

• him
• personal
• giving

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough. John Irving

• love
• art
• personality

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness. Rumi

• people
• personal
• different

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? Isadora Duncan

• motivational
• power
• responsibility

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. Kate Chopin

• my everything
• personal
• business

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. Lydia Lunch

• view
• people
• moments

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. Alastair Campbell

• personality
• free
• personal

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. Nikos Kazantzakis

• personality
• giving
• personal

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. Ugo Betti

• personal
• light
• lost

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic. Martha Reeves

• respect
• thoughts
• work

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. John Forbes Nash