“Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.”
Tim O'Brien (1946) American novelist
Source: In the Lake of The Woods (1994), p. 87
“If my life teaches the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may not exasperate to madness men they persecute and illtreat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.”
Statements to the press (1880)
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Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
As quoted in American Chronicle (1945) by Ray Stannard Baker, quoted on unnumbered page opposite p. 1
1920s and later
“You are the occurrence of my life, you know how to be my most overwhelming madness.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Tu, sei l'occorrenza della mia vita, sai essere la mia più travolgente follia.
Source: prevale.net
“Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)
“"Life is a shiver that flies away / it's all a balance on madness"
(from Sally, 1996)”
Vasco Rossi (1980) Italian singer-songwriter
Song lyrics
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Source: What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
“I was mad and the idea of controlling my life to get what I wanted was like candy to me.”
Sean Sellers (1969–1999) American murderer
The Confession of My Crimes
Context: I was mad at God, I didn’t LIKE God because of how I perceived Him, and the stuff I read on Satanism said two things that appealed to me. #1 — it offered freedom, and #2 — it promised power to control my life, and others. I’d been carted all around the state and Colorado all my life, slapped, smacked, hit, and had whatever I wanted ignored. I was mad and the idea of controlling my life to get what I wanted was like candy to me. Plus I looked at the way everyone around me lived and the stuff I read in the Satanic Bible in principle was lived out in lifestyle by Mom and Dad and everyone else I knew. No one was a real Christian. We didn’t go to church. We didn’t talk about God. … What was the point of pretending to serve God when we lived like Satanists? Satanism taught me that I should make my own rules to live by in life, and that’s just what everyone I’d grown up around did, so I got very involved in Satanism. I truly thought it was an honest way to live, and the rituals of it would enable me to control my life. Even then I didn’t want to kill anyone. That desire didn’t start until later.