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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Sep 30, 2025
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.
There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.
You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.
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.
You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.
I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.
Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.
One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
You see all of us go through the same doubts. We are afraid of being mad; unfortunately for us, of course, all of us are already mad.
There are worse things than being mad.
It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
Because the only people for me are the mad ones.
Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.
I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.
Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."
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