Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is! — Leo Tolstoy
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. — J. G. Ballard
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree. — George Bernard Shaw
Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile. — Cat Stevens
I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me. — George C. Wolfe
I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world. — Danny Devito
What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts — Lewis Carroll
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. — Sean O'Casey
Short Mad World Quotes
The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls. — Sayings
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. — Anthony Burgess
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R. D. Lang
There's a terror in knowing what the world is about — David Bowie
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? — Ursula K. LeGuin
Earth has now, collectively, gone mad. I think I mean that literally. — Eric Weinstein
We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it. — Alice Cooper
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. — Frederick Buechner
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world. — Michael Franti
Mad World Image Quotes
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
The World Has Gone Mad Quotes
This is a faithless old world. Men and women are hardheaded, pleasure-mad, money crazy. They write up their successes and say, "The power and might of my hand have done these things." God has been ruled out; consequently, the thrill and romance of true living are gone for most people. — Lee Roberson
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today. — Cole Porter
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. — D. H. Lawrence
Patience is when you're supposed to be mad but you choose to understand.
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. — Hermann Broch
Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I? — H. G. Wells
A young man's passion, a jaded siren's last chance for love, a world gone mad, cheap thrills, fast cars, expensive wines, the triumph of victory, the overthrow of ontologically incipient hegemony, and gum! I have no idea if this book has any of them! But I liked the part about the bunny. — Esther M. Friesner
The World Is Going Mad Quotes
The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins. — Cyprian
I love what I'm doing. And the world is so mad at everybody. If I do something to make people smile, I'm going to say, I got you. For that moment, if it don't last, I made you forget about the other thing you might have been thinking about. — Buddy Guy
You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war ! — Chris Rock
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger. — Aristophanes
But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy. — Matt de la Pena
In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world. — R. D. Laing
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast? — Laurie R. King
The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness. — Edward Robb Ellis
It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots. — Sue Townsend
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world. — Rafael Sabatini
Mad At The World Quotes
No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven. — George Whitefield
To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind. — Sathya Sai Baba
A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal. — Agnes Repplier
Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. — Ken Livingstone
International terrorists who pursue completely mad objectives such as establishing a world caliphate or something of the sort, are quite adept at disguising their real aims as a struggle for independence in Chechnya. — Vladimir Putin
Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise. — Winston Churchill
Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. — Emile M. Cioran
Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war. — Sudhir Kakar
I forgave Jock Semple his action on Boston race just around the time I got to Heartbreak Hill. I had 24 miles to go and you cannot run 24 miles and stay angry. That's the truth. When we go out and we're mad at our boss or mad at the world, when we run, we get it out of our system. — Kathrine Switzer
How in the world do you get mad at somebody for wanting to be black? That's something for which you should get a gold star. That makes you really sensitive. That makes you a really quality person. — Rush Limbaugh
World Crisis Quotes
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. — Terence McKenna
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different. — Alice Paul
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis. — David Rockefeller
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity. — Vida Goldstein
In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other. — Jose Marti
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau
When banks stop working, the world turns to Bitcoin. — Michael Saylor
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. — Sean Lennon
The climate crisis is being used to create totalitarian controls on society by the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates, and all of these megabillionaires. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. — Richard Eberhart
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. — Thomas Sankara
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul. — Charles Bukowski
Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. — Randy Savage
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. — Will Smith
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. — Edgar Allan Poe
We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. — Enoch Powell
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. — Thomas Aquinas
Insane World Quotes
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. — C. S. Lewis
Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy — Matthew Healy
Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the dream amongst themselves and didn’t realize it. It’s when they invited the public inside their world that everything went wrong. — Harmony Korine
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. — Deepak Chopra
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal? — Rachel Carson
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R. D. Laing
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We will convert the entire world to Islam with our logic. We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we’re one bar closer to humanity. — Prince Ea
No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person. — Bashar al-Assad
The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid. — Arsene Wenger
It's crazy that with an iPhone, a little Starlink antenna, and a solar power unit, you could live in an isolated cave in the mountains or on a raft in the middle of the Pacific and get a world-class education, start a business or art career, and make friends all around the world. — Tim Urban
Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about. — Pete Townshend
If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy. — Peter Maurin
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier. — Paulo Coelho
I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here. — Will Smith
Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents - doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He's already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem... — Lewis Black
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. — Arthur Schopenhauer
You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon. — James Mattis
The effects of the legacy media and Big Tech promote clear psychological manipulation, which has deeply distorted public-health policy. The Davos oligarchs have demonstrated their gross incompetence to all the world over the last two years. I sincerely believe that we can break through the effects of the madness of crowds, the mass formation. — Robert W. Malone
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. — H. P. Lovecraft
Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable! — Marie Corelli
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. — Ramakrishna
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. — John Updike
The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world. — Ingmar Bergman
In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world. — John Forbes Nash
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. — George Monbiot
Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world. — Carl Sagan
Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it. — Caprice Bourret
Every girl in the world wants to find the right man, someone who is sympathetic and understanding and helpful and strong, someone she can love madly. — Carole Landis
We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us. — Vivek Wadhwa
You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad. — James Mattis
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — Richard Dawkins
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. — Umberto Eco
If it’s you and me against the world, then so be it. — Jay-Z
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more. — Fulton J. Sheen
Being in a minority, even in 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
Know what you're talking about. — George H. W. Bush
The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some *******s in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim. — James Mattis
I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings. — Gordon Lightfoot
Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ. — Albrecht Durer
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. — Rafael Sabatini
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. — Baltasar Gracian
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. — Ray Bradbury
I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience. — Cillian Murphy
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of Christ and which is being spread all over the world by unspiritual men employing unscriptural methods to achieve their ends. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. — Alban Berg
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