„Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!
— Russ Cargill“

„But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.“

—  Lewis Carroll, libro Alicia en el país de las maravillas

Fuente: Alice in Wonderland

„If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.“

—  Gregory Maguire Novelist 1954

Fuente: Mirror Mirror

„You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.“

—  Eric Roth American screenwriter 1945

Fuente: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

„I'm not mad that you got mad when I got mad when you said I should go drop dead.“

—  Jonathan Larson American composer and playwright 1960 - 1996

tick, tick... BOOM! (1990)

„I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.'
- Alexander the Great“

—  Matthew Reilly Australian author 1974

Fuente: Seven Deadly Wonders

„Man is sick and nations have gone mad.“

—  L. Ron Hubbard American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology 1911 - 1986

"Times Must Change" in Ability # 179 (20 March 1966).
Contexto: Man is sick and nations have gone mad.
You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person.

„But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.“

—  Joseph Conrad, libro El corazón de las tinieblas

Fuente: Heart of Darkness

„Humor is reason gone mad.“

—  Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977

„That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.“

—  Jeff VanderMeer, libro Aniquilación

Fuente: Annihilation

„If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.“

—  Sherman Alexie, libro The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Fuente: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

„I'll tell you the greatest thing that I've ever achieved in my career: I was on the cover of Mad magazine. And of course, I'm saying "Hello Neuman."“

—  Jerry Seinfeld American comedian and actor 1954

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)

„I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.“

—  Alan Moore English writer primarily known for his work in comic books 1953

De Abaitua interview (1998)
Contexto: I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

„One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.“

—  Aleister Crowley poet, mountaineer, occultist 1875 - 1947

Fuente: Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

„You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.“

—  Desiderius Erasmus Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian 1466 - 1536

Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114

„Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.“

—  Karen Joy Fowler, libro Sarah Canary

Fuente: Sarah Canary

„What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?“

—  Albert Camus, libro Reflections on the Guillotine

Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)

„I'm not mad at you I'm mad a the cheese-steak.“

—  Kerry Jackson

Radio From Hell (June 9, 2006)

„I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the news.“

—  Gina Barberi

Radio From Hell (June 8, 2005)

„No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.“

—  Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 a.C.