Jeffrey Eugenides

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

American Novelist

Jarvis Cocker

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

English Musician

James Redfield

What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.

American Author

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

Fred Melamed

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

American Actor

Florence Nightingale

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

English Activist

Joan D. Vinge

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Michael Reagan

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.

American Entertainer

Darius Rucker

Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is.

American Musician

Maggie Siff

American Actress

Madden suggests a very strong reaction, more than simple annoyance.

Intensity of Anger

Commonly used when repeated actions or persistent situations cause anger.

Situational Usage

Madden is about emotional effect, not physical harm.

Not Physically Harmful

Madden, in this sense, implies a severe mental state, not just a quirky habit.

Extreme Condition

Often found in literature and drama to describe characters' breakdowns or changes.

Literary Context

Used metaphorically more than literally - few situations truly madden people.

Figurative Sense

 Or the blind, idiot god Azathoth, whose destructive impulses are stalled only by the “maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.” These beings exist beyond our conceptions of reality, their true forms as inscrutable as their motives.

Titan of terror: the...

 like a harmful sting, a biting insect, or the tendrils of a poisonous plant. This might explain why we don't feel itching inside our bodies, like in our intestines, which is safe from these external threats, though imagine how maddening that would be.

Why do we itch? - Emma...

 But the question that I kind of want to pose is -- you know, why not? Why not think about it this way? Because it makes as much sense as anything else I have ever heard in terms of explaining the utter maddening capriciousness of the creative process.

Your elusive creative...

 Maddened by survival, I gravitated inwards towards books, poems and my brother's hand-me-down Walkman. I saw train-station theater, subwoofing streets and hood murals. In high school, I found a community of metaphor magicians and truth-telling poets

Aja Monet and phillip...

 Like the critical speculation and maddening plot, their language often goes in circles as the two bicker and banter, lose their train of thought, and pick up right where they left We could start all over again perhaps That should be easy

Why should you read...

 because they did such a good job on testing. Testing and containment. That's why it's so maddening to me that government is not allocating the testing to where it's needed, and maybe that will have to happen at the state level,

How we must respond to...

 and why was it in her care? Her fingers itched to pry it open. Sometimes she was convinced she heard voices whispering and the contents rattling around inside, as if straining to be free. Its enigma became maddening.

The myth of Pandora’s...

 archipelago lands seductively close and yet maddeningly difficult to get to the the polar oceans started melting off and get apart and we had to fight very difficult sections like we had a lot of currents we were

Ice Trek Meets Polar...

 a feeling of maddening dissatisfaction said to blow in from the great plains. The most recent developments in cognitive science show that emotions are not simple reflexes, but immensely complex, elastic systems

The history of human...

 And software was and still is a maddeningly hard-to-control activity, so that was enormously valuable. We used the standards ourselves, we were even paid to update them over the years,