Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. – George Orwell 1984. Part 2, Chapter 9. From Emmanuel Goldstein’s book.
In Burn The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. – Jack Kerouac On The Road. Narrator Sal Paradise in Part One, Chapter 1.
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. – William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 2. Spoken by Puck.
I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I’m mad. – Hilary Mantel
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
A mad person isn’t someone who sees what isn’t there; he’s someone who sees what is there but that others can’t see. I really believe that. – John Burnside
Like ‘Twin Peaks,’ ’24,’ ‘Mad Men,’ and ‘The Sopranos’ before it, ‘Downton Abbey’ enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. – James Wolcott
I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz. – Imelda May
I don’t like the term ‘mental illness.’ I’d rather just say ‘mad.’ Just like I always say ‘loony bin,’ not ‘mental hospital.’ – John Burnside
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. – James Fenton
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad – simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! – Jules Verne
My early ambitions were the same as they are now – to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad. – James Nesbitt
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? – Isadora Duncan
It’s been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia. – Johnny Depp
I’m a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can’t eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that’s no good. – Jensen Ackles
I’ve always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it’ll be like ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people. – James Adomian
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. – Aleister Crowley